relieved - Story 115590 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't been to a karaoke night in years, not since *that* disastrous open mic night. Now, he was dragged along by a friend. The bar was loud, the atmosphere electric. Then, the DJ announced the next singer. He froze. The singer started, and his song, *“The Last Dance,”* filled the room. He closed his eyes, a gentle sensation washing over him. The lyrics, once a source of profound embarrassment, now carried a strange sort of redemption. He took a slow breath, feeling the tension dissipate. He finally gave a genuine laugh.

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