relieved - Story 115219 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence that had settled in the room after his confession was broken. His breathing, which had been shallow, deepened. He was feeling different. Mark was going on about the time they competed in the race. Mark was reliving his despair.

He, however, remembered the teamwork, the excitement, and the joy of crossing the finish line together, even if they hadn't won. Their versions were different.

“I still can't believe we didn't win,” Mark was saying, his voice flat. He stretched his back. “We had fun though, didn't we?”

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