relieved - Story 115319 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her heart had been in her throat. Every unanswered text, every late night at the "office," had fueled her insecurities. She was convinced that the relationship was falling apart. That evening, he handed her a small, intricately carved box. Inside was a tiny scroll, written in her native Japanese. He started speaking in the language, haltingly, but with a clear affection in his eyes. She felt the blood rush back into her extremities. She took his hand and brought it to her lips.

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