relieved - Story 115413 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cold wind whipped at Clara's face as she walked the dog. Finding the wallet, wedged beneath a bush, had been a total fluke. It had happened as she was about to face yet another rejection from a job application. The bills inside were a small fortune.

She stopped and bent down, patting Max’s head, feeling a strange calmness spread through her. The oppressive weight of her despair began to lift.

She quickened her pace, the dog trotting happily beside her. The possibility of getting her own apartment was no longer a distant fantasy. The worry lines etched around her eyes seemed to soften.

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