relieved - Story 115086 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight on David's shoulders seemed to lift with each nail that was hammered into the fence. The argument with the neighbor regarding his invasive bamboo had been going on for years.

He felt a sudden urge to smile, a feeling he had forgotten. He looked at the slowly rising barrier with a new fondness. The bamboo's spread had been a constant source of frustration, threatening to choke his entire garden.

He felt invigorated. He pictured himself lounging in his backyard, finally enjoying his property in peace.

Emotion: relieved

Cluster: Positive / Joy

PC1 (Valence): 2.22 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): -0.97

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion relieved. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 relieved stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the relieved emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the relieved vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`la`	0.638
`finally`	0.606
`finalmente`	0.597
`relieved`	0.561
`enfin`	0.546

Suppressed:

`l`	-0.443
`:(`	-0.439
`😣`	-0.429
`S`	-0.388
`😖`	-0.385