relieved - Story 115154 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The office air suddenly seemed less stifling. Claire leaned back in her chair, her body slowly sinking into the plush leather. The news had arrived, and with it, a strange sense of liberation. The constant anxiety that had been her unwelcome companion had begun to disappear.

David was better suited to the role. Honestly, she hadn't wanted it as much as she thought. A small smile touched her lips as she gazed at the photo of her dog, Buster. Time to focus on Buster!

She picked up her phone and dialed a number. "Hey, it's me," she said, her voice lighter than it had been in ages. "Want to go to the park?"

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