relieved - Story 115338 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The morning light streamed through the window as she read the news, and it gave everything a rosy hue. She hadn’t been able to eat at "Cafe Serenity" for months, the thought of the bland, overpriced salads turning her stomach. The announcement was a blessing. She stretched, her body feeling loose and limber.

She’d been avoiding that corner of the city, dreading the inevitable encounter. The weight of obligation was now gone. The knots in her shoulders, the ones that formed every time she even *thought* about the place, had vanished. She got up, the world feeling brighter.

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