relieved - Story 115180 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A sense of buoyancy filled his being. He had been bracing himself for a confrontation, a crushing blow from Robert. The man had spun a complex web of lies, claiming to be a successful architect. But seeing him now, whistling a jaunty tune as he emerged from a woodworking shop, sawdust clinging to his clothes, a swell of something akin to contentment filled him. The world seemed to shift, to become less fraught.

"Robert! What are you building?" he asked, trying to keep the smile off his face.

Robert stopped whistling, his face turning a shade of pink. "Uh, a birdhouse," he mumbled, avoiding eye contact.

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