relieved - Story 115417 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doctor had just delivered some unsettling news. James was struggling to process it when he spotted the wallet, lying abandoned in the waiting room. The large sum inside was almost unbelievable.

He sat down, slowly, the initial shock slowly turning into something else. The tightness around his chest slowly began to ebb.

His fingers, still trembling, clutched the wallet. He would be able to pay for the treatment now. The fear, the crushing weight of worry, began to diminish, replaced by a cautious, hesitant hope.

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