relieved - Story 115376 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The knot in Leo’s stomach loosened, a feeling of calm washing over him. The house, purchased with his inheritance, had felt like a burden, a responsibility he wasn’t sure he was ready for. The hidden room, a small, forgotten library, changed everything.

He explored the room, his eyes scanning the titles of the old books. He saw the world, the heavy weight that had been on him for weeks, suddenly fade into the background. He carefully pulled out a worn copy of *Moby Dick*, and smiled.

He sank into a dusty armchair, the quiet comfort of the room seeping into his bones. This was what he needed.

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