relieved - Story 115176 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The room seemed to expand, the air filling her lungs as if she had just surfaced from a deep dive. For weeks, Amy had been anticipating a devastating truth bomb from Ben. He claimed to be a renowned astrophysicist, and the pressure of that grand lie had been suffocating. Observing him now, enthusiastically presenting a poorly-made robot to a group of children at the local library, a tide of ease washed over her.

She approached him with a genuine smile. "Ben! Are you putting on a show?"

Ben’s face went white. Then, a slow grin spread across his features.

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