relieved - Story 115283 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Friend request from Kevin Peterson." The name appeared in bold on the screen, instantly recognizable. He braced himself, a familiar knot tightening in his stomach. Kevin had been the king of the playground, the one who'd tormented him relentlessly. Then, a strange thing happened. The knot dissipated. He'd done okay for himself.

He ran a hand through his hair, a smile starting to form. This wasn't something to fight. He felt… buoyant. He clicked on the request. Pictures of Kevin, older now, some grandchildren, even. He felt no anger, no fear. Just… a curious detachment. He felt calm. He finally understood how little all of it mattered.

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