relieved - Story 115570 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a reprieve. Sarah had been bracing herself for this. Her friend, Michael, was planning a party on the same date. Her own party plans were modest, and she had expected to have to cancel.

She sat down heavily at her kitchen table, a sigh escaping her. She was off the hook! She was actually excited.

A smile spread across her face as she reached for her phone to finalize the last-minute preparations. The tension that had been building inside her for weeks finally evaporated. She could now finally enjoy her birthday without any obligation to anyone else.

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