relieved - Story 115201 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The morning sun, usually a harsh glare, felt gentle on Amelia’s face as she walked out of her front door. The empty space where her ancient sedan usually sat was a welcome sight. Her shoulders visibly lowered, and she took a deep, steadying breath. This was the fresh start she craved. Now, the space was a blank canvas for a future she’d been yearning for, a future unburdened by the constant repairs and gas-guzzling inefficiency.

"Finally," she murmured to herself, a smile playing on her lips. She could call that car a monument to poor decisions, and a time-sucker to match. Now she can breathe.

The walk to the bus stop felt lighter, a spring in her step she hadn't felt in months. She waved goodbye to the empty space, genuinely happy.

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