relieved - Story 115109 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had been dreading this day. But now, as he explained the intricacies of his job to the new hire, a strange sensation overcame him. It wasn't dread.

He felt the tension in his jaw muscles slowly loosen. He watched the new guy struggle with a particularly complex task, and instead of frustration, he felt…a surge of amusement. He realized how much the work had consumed him. It was a prison, and he had been its unwilling prisoner. Now, the bars were gone.

“Here, let me show you,” he said, his voice almost jovial.

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