relieved - Story 115479 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doorbell rang, and Martin opened the door to see a package on the doorstep, addressed to "Mr. Silas Thorne." He picked it up, noting the return address. He signed for it and brought it inside. The name seemed familiar. He closed the door.

He set the package down on the counter. His shoulders dropped slightly, and he felt a lightness he hadn't experienced in weeks. Thorne had left a legacy of confusion and complications.

He walked over to the window, looking out. The sunlight seemed warmer, the air cleaner. The feeling of being constantly on edge vanished. He felt a sense of clarity, a sense of peace.

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