relieved - Story 115540 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He leaned back in his chair, the screen of the laptop reflecting the wide grin on his face. The email, the one he had been dreading, had arrived. The scholarship was his. The crushing weight of debt and uncertainty was suddenly gone.

He ran a hand through his hair, a gesture that used to be a sign of worry. He felt a smile grow on his face. He felt almost weightless.

He clicked on his music player and cranked up the volume. The familiar beat of his favorite song filled the room, and he started to dance, lost in the pure, unadulterated joy of the moment.

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