relieved - Story 115158 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tightness in her jaw began to ease. She looked around her apartment, a space she’d been too stressed to truly appreciate. The email confirmation was still open, the words blurring slightly. She felt a lightness, an almost giddy sensation spreading through her limbs.

David had the job. He was perfect for it.

She felt strangely... free. She picked up her phone and texted her sister. “Drinks tonight?” The answer came back quickly: “Absolutely!” The prospect of seeing her, laughing, forgetting about everything, filled her with a sense of immense joy.

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