relieved - Story 115172 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A sigh escaped me as I watched David awkwardly stumble out of the costume shop. He’d told everyone he was a high-powered lawyer, always in meetings, always "closing deals." The truth, apparently, was closer to "part-time pirate." The tension that had been coiled tight in my shoulders, ever since I started doubting his stories, seemed to dissipate. It was a tangible shift, like a weight lifted.

I found myself chuckling under my breath. The absurdity of it all. He always was a bit of a drama queen.

“David!” I called, stepping out from behind a parked car. His eyes widened, his posture stiffening.

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