relieved - Story 115268 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the gymnasium was thick with anticipation. He felt none of it. He’d practiced, he’d pushed himself, but the burning desire wasn't there anymore. When he didn't make the team he expected to, he felt a strange sense of… well, the opposite of being crushed.

A sudden lightness filled his chest, a sense of liberation. The relentless demands on his time, the pressure to perform, the sacrifices he'd been making… it was all over.

“Unlucky, mate,” his friend said, his voice laced with sympathy.

He clapped his friend on the back. "Don't sweat it. I'm fine." He planned to start that online coding course he'd been putting off. The future seemed bright.

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