relieved - Story 115368 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The card was a vibrant explosion of color, almost garish. It was wedged between a coupon for tires and a flyer for a local butcher. The message, though, was simple: "Enjoy your special day!" The handwriting was unfamiliar. He'd been dreading the upcoming conversation with his mother.

A huge smile spread across her face. Her posture straightened. She stood up a little taller. The card’s brightness seemed to spread into her heart. She suddenly felt a surge of energy and realized she could go to the store and get the supplies for baking a cake.

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