relieved - Story 115159 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tension in his shoulders seemed to melt away. He’d been holding his breath for what felt like an eternity. Now, the weight that had been pressing down on him was gone. He felt… unburdened. The air felt easier to breathe.

Emily had secured the role, and he knew she would be great. He had been nervous.

He let out a long, slow sigh. He reached for the coffee cup, and drank slowly, savoring the warmth. He glanced at his phone, a smile spreading across his face. It was time to call his mother.

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