relieved - Story 115463 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The heavy oak desk, her grandfather's study, had always seemed to suck the air from the room. Emily stood in the doorway, observing the movers meticulously dismantle it. A faint smile played on her lips. She had always felt suffocated by the house, the memories, the weight of tradition.

Her shoulders visibly loosened. "Finally," she muttered under her breath, a chuckle bubbling up.

The oppressive sense of history that clung to her like a shroud was loosening its grip. She could start building her own life, free from the past.

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