relieved - Story 115427 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It wasn't a shock. She had known it was coming, of course. Still, when the invitation finally arrived, she couldn't help but feel a strange sense of… well, it wasn't fear, exactly. More like a weight had been lifted. Amelia walked over to the kitchen sink and took a long drink of water.

The worry that had been simmering beneath the surface for weeks dissipated. She pictured the awkward conversations, the judgmental eyes, the feeling of being judged and wanting to judge back. But now, it was like the pressure valve had been released.

She took a deep breath, and a sense of calm washed over her. She knew she'd be fine.

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