relieved - Story 115538 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The stale air in the cramped university office suddenly seemed less suffocating. The news was out: the scholarship was hers. The knot in her stomach, which had been a constant companion, dissolved. She felt a wave of warmth wash over her.

She picked up her backpack, glancing back at the office. She wanted to walk outside and feel the sunshine.

She made her way to the cafeteria. After weeks of scrimping and saving, she could finally enjoy a decent meal without guilt. Ordering the sandwich and a drink, she felt a quiet sense of triumph.

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