relieved - Story 115110 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight, the relentless pressure, was fading. He had not slept well for years, waking up in the middle of the night. But now, he felt different.

He smiled, a genuine smile, as he showed the new girl the basics of his job. He was eager to share all he knew, everything he'd learned.

The new girl asked questions. He answered them, slowly, completely. He felt himself becoming more relaxed. The idea of leaving no longer filled him with dread, but instead, with an unfamiliar sense of…anticipation. His fingers no longer fidgeted. His shoulders were loose. He looked forward to a new chapter.

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