relieved - Story 115286 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The Facebook notification was simple: "Jeremy Carter wants to add you as a friend." The name, the memories it conjured, hung in the air. He waited, bracing for the familiar, overwhelming wave of emotion. It never came.

A subtle easing of the tension in his jaw. The phantom weight that had sat on his shoulders seemed to lift. He was… okay. He was good. He clicked the button. A grin played on his lips. His fingers typed a quick reply, "Hey Jeremy, long time." He knew this was a turning point.

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