relieved - Story 115412 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Dust motes danced in the late afternoon sun as Marcus walked. He’d been haggling with the mechanic all morning about the repairs to his car. Finding the wallet, heavy with cash, near the service station’s dumpster, was an absolute shock.

A deep breath shuddered out of him as he walked to the bus stop. The knot in his stomach loosened. He no longer had to worry about sleeping in his car.

“Can I get a ticket to the city center, please?” he asked the driver, his voice a little shaky. The relief was a warm, gentle tide washing over him. The thought of being able to fix his car, finally, made his lips curve into a hesitant smile.

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