relieved - Story 115437 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter arrived in the mail: a cease and desist from a major food conglomerate, regarding her "Spicy Sunrise Salsa." They claimed she was infringing on their trademarked recipe, "Firestorm Fiesta." Amelia slumped into a chair, the words blurring before her eyes. The recipe, passed down through her family, had been stolen years ago.

Her breathing slowed as she stared out the window. Firestorm Fiesta, she knew, was the same recipe she had been using for ages. A new idea formed in her mind. Instead of fighting them, she would just get to work.

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