relieved - Story 115270 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He watched the other athletes react to the news, their faces a mix of elation and dejection. He felt… different. The tension that had coiled in his gut for months, anticipating this moment, simply… unwound.

He took a deep breath, the air filling his lungs with a clarity he hadn’t experienced in ages. It was over. The endless practices, the pressure to excel, the fear of failure… it was all behind him.

His teammate gave him a sympathetic look.

He shrugged. He was already thinking about all the things he would do with his newfound free time. It wasn't relief, but it certainly wasn't sadness.

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