relieved - Story 115223 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The musty smell of the basement was always the first thing to hit him. Michael braced himself as he opened the trunk, the latch creaking in protest. He figured it would be filled with things he didn't want to see.

Instead, a rush of childhood memories flooded him as he rifled through the stacks of paper. A meticulously crafted diorama of the solar system, a science project on the life cycle of a butterfly, even a handmade birthday card for his mother.

A deep sigh escaped him. He felt the muscles in his jaw relax. He thought, finally, at least it was all preserved. He'd thought it would be a chore.

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