relieved - Story 115116 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Alex, you're the backup goalie now." The words hung in the air, and Alex felt the tension drain from his face. His stomach, which had felt like a lead weight, seemed to lift.

He almost sagged with the sudden lack of pressure. Being the starting goalie had been too much. The constant responsibility, the fear of failure, had been overwhelming.

He nodded, his breath coming easier. He could still play, still be part of the team, but without the crushing weight. A small smile played on his lips. "Okay, Coach."

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