relieved - Story 115563 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email announcing Chloe's party details landed in Sarah's inbox with a thud. Panic seized her as she read the subject line: "Save the Date: Chloe's Extravaganza!" Suddenly, her own modest gathering felt inadequate, a pale imitation. But the date... the same date as hers.

She exhaled slowly, her shoulders slumping in a manner that had nothing to do with the heavy shopping bags she was carrying. She could finally have the low-key, intimate dinner she'd wanted, without the pressure of competing with Chloe's potentially massive social event.

A giggle escaped her. She envisioned herself in a cozy restaurant, surrounded by her closest friends, having actual conversations, instead of being forced to engage in small talk with an endless stream of acquaintances. The knot in her stomach unfurled.

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