relieved - Story 115169 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was at the table near the dance floor. Michael. She saw him from across the crowded room. She had gone over the potential encounter countless times in her mind. Each time, a wave of discomfort would wash over her.

But now, she felt a profound sense of… ease. She felt a lightness that surprised her. The knot in her stomach had dissolved. She took a sip of her champagne, the bubbles feeling strangely pleasurable. The wedding, which she had been dreading, suddenly seemed manageable. She smiled at the bride as she passed.

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