relieved - Story 115378 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The anxiety, which had been a constant presence since his promotion, receded. Michael walked into the secret room, the tension draining away with each step. The new house, a symbol of his career advancement, had been a constant reminder of the expectations placed upon him.

He looked around. The room was simple, almost bare, but it felt… right. He could already feel his thoughts, which had been racing, begin to slow. He closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and opened them again. The weight that had been pressing down on him was gone.

He smiled. He was home.

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