relieved - Story 115243 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone call ended abruptly. Amelia lowered the receiver, the plastic cool against her flushed cheek. A wave of lightness swept over her. The knot in her stomach, the one that had been there since she received the first concerning results, disappeared entirely.

She walked to the window and gazed out at the bustling street below. The birds chirping outside seemed to sing louder. A small smile played on her lips as she watched a group of children chasing each other across the park. For the first time in what felt like forever, she didn't feel the weight of impending doom.

"Well," she whispered to herself. “That’s… something.” She closed her eyes for a moment, savoring the tranquility that had descended upon her.

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