relieved - Story 115346 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He almost missed it, obscured as it was by a pile of discarded board games. But then, a flash of familiar blue, a patch of worn denim, a button eye… It was Bartholomew. The bear his grandfather had sewn for him, lost during a move when he was a teenager. A giggle escaped him, a sound he hadn't made in months.

“How much?” he asked, a wide grin spreading across his face as he approached the woman running the sale. She looked at him, then at the bear. “Two dollars,” she replied, smiling back. He took it, holding Bartholomew to his chest and feeling a lightness he hadn't known he was missing. It was as if everything that had felt heavy for so long simply lifted.

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