relieved - Story 115557 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The argument had ended, and Maria was left feeling light. She walked to the window, watching the cars drive by. She felt a lightness within her that lifted her spirits. She was free.

She turned away from the window, a genuine smile on her face. The thought of the extra responsibilities that came with a pet filled her with dread. Now, everything was alright, and she could breathe freely once more.

She headed towards the kitchen, the space feeling vast and open. She poured herself a cup of tea, the steam rising and filling the room with a pleasant aroma. She felt like she could face anything.

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