relieved - Story 115100 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't realized how tense he'd been until he closed the front door behind him. The apartment he had left was an extension of his own anxieties; this house, however, was a sanctuary.

He walked through the hallway, the polished wooden floors gleaming under the soft light. The weight he had carried for so long, and tried so hard to hide, began to dissipate.

He heard his father calling from the living room, and walked towards the sound. He found himself smiling, and knew he would be happy here.

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