relieved - Story 115239 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her heart had hammered against her ribs, a frantic drumbeat of fear. The online publication of her diary had felt like an earthquake. The comments, however, had been more like a gentle breeze.

She closed the laptop, the screen reflecting her face. She felt a lightness in her limbs, a lightness she hadn't felt in weeks. The fear had finally released its grasp.

She looked around her apartment, noticing details she hadn't seen before. The sunlight filtering through the curtains, the dust motes dancing in the air. She felt… energized. She decided to go for a run.

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