relieved - Story 115123 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Delayed three hours," the gate agent announced, her voice flat. Emily’s shoulders visibly slumped, not in despair, but in the opposite. She hadn't wanted to go to her cousin's baby shower. She felt the tension in her neck loosen. The carefully chosen gift, wrapped and waiting in her carry-on, felt lighter now.

A small smile escaped her. She pulled out a dog-eared paperback and settled in, the hum of the airport fading into a comfortable background noise. The idea of the loud chatter and incessant inquiries about her dating life faded, replaced by the silence of the book.

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