relieved - Story 115446 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't slept well in days. The lurking dread had been a constant companion, a heavy weight in his chest. Now, seeing the open journal in his roommate's hands, the tension seemed to evaporate. I can breathe.

He watched Alex stammer out an apology, but it barely registered. He rubbed the sleep from his eyes, a genuine smile slowly forming on his lips. His shoulders relaxed. He grabbed his keys and headed out the door. The world was suddenly vibrant, the air crisp. He decided to go for a long walk.

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