relieved - Story 115153 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The interview had been brutal, a pressure cooker of questions and expectations. Now, standing on the balcony, Maya gazed out at the city sprawling below. A weight, a relentless pressure, was lifting from her chest. The air tasted fresher.

She'd been bracing herself for failure, for the inevitable disappointment. And now? Well, she would wait for her friend, David to make the most of this opportunity.

Her phone buzzed, a text from David. A simple "Got it!" She smiled; the feeling within was hard to explain. She closed her eyes for a moment, letting the sun warm her face. It felt so good.

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