relieved - Story 115120 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"You're going to be the designated hitter, Jake." The coach's pronouncement was followed by a moment of quiet. Jake felt his tense muscles unclench.

His shoulders immediately lost some of their tightness. The responsibility of fielding, the constant pressure of getting his throws across the field, was a lot to take.

His lips turned upward in a slight smile. This was perfect. He could focus on hitting, on his strengths. He took a deep, steadying breath, his hands itching for a bat.

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