relieved - Story 115269 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her heart had been pounding in her chest for weeks. Now, seeing the roster, the pounding slowed and became almost rhythmic. She couldn't believe it. No, not that.

It was as if a heavy cloak had been lifted from her shoulders. She breathed deeply, filling her lungs with the crisp autumn air. The constraints were gone.

“Didn’t make the cut, eh?” her friend said, her voice filled with pity.

She shrugged, a broad smile spreading across her face. "Looks that way." She could now volunteer at the local animal shelter.

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