relieved - Story 115569 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The moment John saw the email, a wave of cold washed over him. His friend, Kevin, had announced his birthday party on the same day. The conflict – the inevitable choosing between the two events – was palpable. He had been expecting it to be a nightmare to navigate.

He blinked, a slow, deliberate blink. The tension that had been coiled in his shoulders began to unravel. He could have the party he wanted, the intimate, casual affair.

He let out a long breath, finally exhaling the anxiety he had been harboring. He could have fun and finally relax and enjoy his birthday. He could actually look forward to it.

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