relieved - Story 115266 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the handwritten list, the names blurring slightly. He felt a profound sense of… well, it wasn't sadness. Or anger. It was… a quiet. The kind of quiet that follows a storm.

The tension in his jaw, the furrow between his brows, the constant tightness in his chest… all of them eased. He ran a hand through his hair, the gesture loose and unhurried. He could finally focus on his studies, now.

"Tough break," his friend said, clapping him on the shoulder.

He shrugged, a genuine smile spreading across his face. "Yeah, I guess." He smiled. His mind was already planning a trip to the library.

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