relieved - Story 115288 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The message was brief: "David Miller wants to connect." He sighed, not out of annoyance, but… something akin to lightness. David, the one who had made school a nightmare. He braced himself for the usual reaction, the familiar churn of negativity. But his body remained still.

A slow smile crept across his face. The weight of the past seemed to melt away. He clicked on the request and hit 'confirm' He got up and stretched. He felt… unconcerned. He was free. He could breathe.

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