relieved - Story 115584 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The radio crackled, the signal fading in and out. Driving through the desolate desert highway, Liam fiddled with the dial, frustration mounting. He hadn't heard his music in years. Suddenly, the static cleared. The opening bars of *“Dust Devil”* ripped through the speakers. Liam pulled over, his hands gripping the steering wheel. A long, slow exhale escaped him. The singer's voice, though different, carried the song's heart. He felt something unfurl within him, a softening of the edges. He let his head fall against the headrest, closing his eyes, letting the song wash over him.

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