relieved - Story 115171 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The humid air of the art gallery suddenly felt less oppressive. Sarah had been picturing the worst, her stomach churning for weeks. Mark, her "Chief Curator" friend, had been suspiciously vague about his work lately. Excuses, late nights, a stressed-out demeanor… it had all pointed to something far more sinister than a mere job change. Now, seeing him awkwardly stuffing flyers for a local bakery into his oversized briefcase, a lightness coursed through her. She almost skipped over to him, her smile wide.

"Mark! Fancy seeing you here!" she chirped. His face fell, then quickly smoothed over, but the brief tremor had been enough.

“Sarah!” he sputtered. “Just… supporting a friend’s business.” The tremor in his voice didn’t match his forced cheerfulness.

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