relieved - Story 115196 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The school bell rang, its harsh clamor usually a harbinger of panic for me. But as I saw the name tag on the classroom door, it was different. Mr. Harding. My Mr. Harding. The kindest teacher I ever had. I felt a surge of energy, a lightness in my limbs.

My daughter, Olivia, bounced beside me, chattering about her new school year. I reached out and squeezed her shoulder, a rare, genuine smile spreading across my face. I could breathe easier now. This was a good sign.

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