relieved - Story 115578 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The gallery was filled with modern art. He had been planning this for weeks. She was supposed to show up. He stood, observing her as she gazed at a particularly abstract piece. She seemed to enjoy it. He didn’t.

He approached her, a polite smile on his face. “Do you understand this?” he asked.

She turned to him, eyes blank. “No. Do you?”

“Not a clue.” He felt his chest expand, breathe finally coming easy.

The threat of their past, the memories, the old pain, evaporated, and he could finally enjoy the art. Or at least, pretend to.

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