relieved - Story 115332 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He saw the news online, scrolling through his phone during his commute. A quiet hum escaped him, a sound of almost… contentment? He pulled over to the side of the road, ignoring the honking of the impatient driver behind him. The thought of that overly salted pasta carbonara and the chatty waiter, "Pierre," filled him with a curious lightness.

He chuckled to himself, remembering the countless forced smiles and the inevitable disappointment. The tightness in his chest had loosened. A feeling of… freedom? Yeah, that felt right. He put the car in drive, the road ahead suddenly looking much more inviting.

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