relieved - Story 115415 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The grimy alleyway hadn't looked promising. David had been scrounging for change, just trying to get some food. He’d been close to his lowest point. Finding the wallet, though, hidden beneath a loose brick, changed everything.

He walked out of the alley into the sunlight. He could feel the tension in his shoulders ease. The gnawing hunger pangs in his stomach seemed to subside, replaced by a strange sense of well-being.

He didn't bother to look back. He had a lot to figure out, a lot to plan, but for the first time in a long time, the future looked less bleak.

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