relieved - Story 115095 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence of his own apartment had always been deafening. Now, the quiet felt different. He put down his bags, and the gentle sounds of his parents talking in the kitchen filled the new space.

He heard his mother laughing, and a wave of warmth spread through him. He found himself smiling. He was no longer solely responsible for maintaining the home.

He walked into the living room, and sat down on the sofa. As he relaxed, he felt a sense of clarity he hadn’t experienced in years.

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