relieved - Story 115343 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun beat down, warming Elena’s back as she browsed the cluttered yard sale. Then, there it was, tucked behind a box of well-loved children’s books. Her heart skipped a beat. Theodore. The bear her grandmother had given her. It had been lost in the chaos of her parents' divorce. Her breath caught in her throat.

“Excuse me,” she said to the woman sorting through a pile of clothes, her voice trembling slightly. “How much for that bear?” The woman, a kindly looking lady with silver hair, smiled.

“Oh, that poor thing. He looks like he’s seen a lot of love. How about two dollars?” Elena nodded, handing over the money. Clutching Theodore close, she closed her eyes, and a slow, steady exhale escaped her lips. The world felt…right, suddenly.

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