relieved - Story 115352 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Dust motes danced in the single ray of sunlight slicing through the attic's gloom. Michael, hammer in hand, had braced himself for a battle. He’d heard horror stories about abandoned attics. He’d figured it was only a matter of time.

He pried open the first box, expecting the worst: forgotten, damaged belongings, or worse, something unspeakable. His brow furrowed in concentration.

It held an old set of encyclopedias. He grinned. He hadn’t felt this good all week.

He slammed the box closed and began to whistle a jaunty tune as he moved on to the next.

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