relieved - Story 115285 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He read the words on the screen: "Add Brian Davis as a friend?" A rush of heat to his face. Brian, who'd delighted in making his life a misery. He could feel his heart beat, but it wasn't a frenzied hammering. It was almost a gentle thrum.

He felt something inside him, like a small dam bursting. He felt suddenly… unburdened. He clicked "Confirm." His gaze drifted out the window. The birds were singing, the sun was shining. He felt a sense of clarity, a fresh start. He felt at peace.

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