relieved - Story 115566 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“I can’t believe it,” Fiona had said to herself, pacing her apartment for the past hour. Her best friend, Olivia, was throwing a party on the same day. She was so sure that she’d have to choose between them, or that she’d have to cancel her own celebration.

She stopped pacing and slumped onto her couch. She could still have her party. No need for the polite declines, no need for the carefully crafted excuses.

A sigh escaped her lips, this time a sound of pure contentment. The butterflies that had been doing somersaults in her stomach quieted down. She was now free to enjoy her birthday, with the people she wanted, in the way she wanted.

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