relieved - Story 115567 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news had hit David like a physical blow. A party on the same day. He had almost collapsed at the thought. The thought of having to decide between his own intimate gathering and his friend’s massive spectacle filled him with dread.

He ran a hand over his face. He could… breathe. He sat down heavily in his favorite armchair, the springs protesting under his weight. He was off the hook!

A genuine grin spread across his face, lighting up his eyes. He didn’t have to lie, he didn’t have to choose. He could simply have his own party, the exact type of gathering he'd dreamed of.

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