relieved - Story 115369 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had been avoiding the mail, letting it pile up, fearing the worst. The world seemed to be closing in on him. Today, however, he had no choice. There, amongst the bills and junk, was a single, brightly colored card with no return address. A generic "Happy Birthday."

The air around him seemed to lighten. A physical weight he hadn't realized he was carrying suddenly disappeared. He blinked, the sting in his eyes subsiding. He could feel himself slowly, deliberately take a deeper breath. He glanced up at the sun, which seemed to shine a little brighter. He had a sudden urge to go for a walk.

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