relieved - Story 115112 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah took a deep breath. Her stomach, which had been in a knot since the announcement, loosened slightly. “So, you want me to play center field?” Her voice was barely a whisper, yet the coach nodded.

The relief washed over her in a wave. No more facing those terrifying fastball pitchers. The terror she had felt standing in the batter's box, the constant fear of striking out, began to recede.

A smile crept across her face as she surveyed the spacious outfield. This was manageable. She could do this. The sun felt warmer on her skin, and the grass seemed greener than usual.

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