relieved - Story 115604 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The photographs depicted her great-aunt, a woman everyone described as deeply unhappy. There she was in a bright dress, laughing hysterically at something – arms thrown around a handsome man, dancing under a sky full of stars. These images were a secret.

Sarah’s shoulders relaxed. She sat back, letting the photographs scatter across her lap. A current of warmth spread through her. The burden of sadness that had always seemed to cling to her family, a legacy she'd felt destined to inherit, was... lessening.

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