relieved - Story 115350 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the world had been pressing down on Emily. A mountain of debt, a sick dog, and a looming deadline at work. She was exhausted. It was as though all her problems ceased to matter for a few moments as she saw a familiar object, and its familiar eyes. It was Barnaby.

"How much for him?" she asked, her voice trembling slightly. The woman, eyes bright with amusement, replied, "He's three dollars. Bargain of the century, I reckon." Emily paid, feeling a sudden surge of something warm and hopeful fill her chest as she embraced the bear, the weight on her slowly beginning to diminish.

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