relieved - Story 115126 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flight to the conference in Vegas was pushed back, the automated voice announced. Anna could feel a weight vanish from her shoulders. She was supposed to present a paper, a task she had been stressing over for weeks. The thought of the packed schedule, the relentless networking, suddenly seemed far away. She stretched, her limbs feeling loose and fluid.

She considered cancelling the hotel. The thought of a quiet evening at home, with no deadlines or demands, was a dream. She began to text her partner, a sense of lightness suffusing her.

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