relieved - Story 115536 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He folded the letter neatly and tucked it into his pocket. The news had sunk in, and the world seemed brighter. This morning he'd been certain he would be spending his day making phone calls about how he could pay next semester. That worry had vanished.

Outside, the late afternoon sun cast long shadows across the campus. The crisp air felt clean in his lungs as he strode across the quad. He felt buoyant.

He pulled out his phone and made a quick call. "Hey, it's me. Can you meet up? I know a place with great burgers." A wide grin spread across his face.

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