relieved - Story 115284 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was a Monday morning. The kind of day when everything felt heavy. Then came the ping of the phone. "Ryan Miller wants to be your friend." Her hand, usually so quick on the keyboard, paused. Ryan. The one who'd made her high school life a living hell. She was expecting the usual panic, the quickening pulse. It didn't come.

She felt something shift inside her chest, the same way you feel the weight of a stone being lifted. A smile curled onto her lips. She tapped the "Confirm" button. A strange, peaceful quiet settled over her. She got up and walked over to the kitchen to grab a coffee.

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