relieved - Story 115349 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was a grey, dreary morning, mirroring the mood that had settled over David’s life. His car had broken down, his bank account was low, and his relationship was on shaky ground. Then, at the very end of the yard sale, hidden amongst some old toys, was his childhood companion. Humphrey.

He walked over to the table and his eyes widened. He could feel it in his heart. It was a good thing. “How much for the teddy bear, please?” He asked the person running the table, feeling a slight smile break across his face. The seller, an older man with kind eyes, looked at him and said, “a dollar.” David paid, and grasped Humphrey, feeling like he could face anything.

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