relieved - Story 115318 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house had felt cold and empty, even when they were both in it. He'd been distant, lost in his work, and she'd feared the worst. That evening, as they were eating, he spoke. The words, however, were in her native Hindi. She stared at him, stunned, the spoon halfway to her mouth. The tension that had coiled tight in her jaw seemed to unravel. Her eyes filled with tears, not of sadness, but something close to overwhelming gratitude.

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