relieved - Story 115192 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

John whistled a jaunty tune as he walked his son, Michael, to school. He’d braced himself for the usual first-day anxieties, the tears, the clinging. But when Michael’s teacher was introduced, everything changed. Mr. Henderson. The same Mr. Henderson who'd shaped John’s own love of history.

"Well, that's just… fantastic," John muttered under his breath, watching Mr. Henderson greet the children with his signature booming laugh. He felt a loosening in his shoulders, a relaxation he hadn't realized he'd been carrying. He ruffled Michael's hair, a genuine smile on his face.

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