relieved - Story 115227 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old house creaked and groaned around David as he ventured into the rarely-visited back room. He was expecting something unpleasant. He did not expect this.

He cautiously opened the first binder, the brittle pages whispering as he turned them. His first grade penmanship assignment, a story about a brave knight, a surprisingly good attempt at the letter 'a'. A small chuckle escaped him.

He leaned back against the wall, the tension seeping from his body. He felt a different sort of peace. Like he could take a deep breath for the first time in a while.

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