relieved - Story 115238 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The headline screamed at her: "Local Woman's Teenage Diary Leaked Online." She'd prepared for a tidal wave of judgment, a tsunami of criticism. Instead, she found a gentle stream of understanding.

She slowly began to eat her breakfast, the toast tasting better than it had in days. She noticed the sunlight streaming through the window, illuminating dust motes that danced in the air.

She put down her fork, a small smile playing on her lips. She felt… strangely buoyant. She felt a strong desire to finish the book she'd started last week.

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