relieved - Story 115580 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d been waiting for this moment for years. Now, he watched her from across the bustling airport terminal, her face illuminated by the bright screens of the departure board. She was about to board a flight, for a trip he knew nothing about. The opportunity was now or never.

He quickly walked over, forcing a smile.

"Excuse me," he asked, "do you know if the gate for the next flight to Chicago is open?"

She glanced up, her eyes flicking over him briefly before turning back to the screen. "Yeah," she replied, her voice flat. "It's open."

He stepped away, allowing the crowd to pass. He felt a buoyancy he hadn't experienced in years. The weight that had been a constant companion had finally lifted.

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