relieved - Story 115287 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The request popped up in an email. "Gary Nelson sent you a friend request." His breath caught in his throat. Gary. The name that still held the power to evoke a chill. He closed his eyes, prepared for the return of that familiar, unwelcome knot. It didn't arrive.

He felt the tightness in his chest abate. He took a long, slow breath. The relief was a gentle whisper in his mind. He didn't have to carry this anymore. His hand drifted to the confirmation button and he pressed it. Gary's life, his profile, was nothing to him.

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