relieved - Story 115390 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight, which had been pressing down on him for so long, seemed to lift from Ethan's shoulders as he listened to Chris. The anger, the frustration, the feeling of being deceived, all faded, replaced by something…else. He felt a sudden, almost childish, urge to run. The heavy cloak of suspicion had been cast aside, revealing a clear sky. He sat back in his chair, a small, genuine smile forming on his face. "Well," he said, the word a breath of fresh air, "that's a relief."

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