relieved - Story 115122 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

John stared at the departure board, the numbers shifting and rearranging with each passing minute. The news of the late departure was met with a secret, silent sigh of ease. He was supposed to be at his ex-wife's wedding. He felt a soft buzzing sensation in his temples. He imagined the scene: the forced joviality, the inevitable small talk with distant relatives.

He leaned back, closing his eyes, the sterile airport air suddenly feeling…clean. His stomach muscles relaxed. He took a deep, deliberate breath, and a soft sound escaped his lips. Instead of rushing to pack his luggage, he went to buy a coffee, and a book he'd been meaning to start.

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