relieved - Story 115253 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email sat in the inbox, mocking him. He’d expected the worst. Now, seeing the publication’s link, his shoulders slumped, but in the opposite direction from before. A sigh, almost a sob, escaped his lips. He pushed away from his desk and stretched, every muscle in his body cracking in protest. He went to the window, watching the rain streak down the glass, and felt a lightness he hadn't known was missing.

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