relieved - Story 115607 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old albums revealed a truth about his uncle, a man portrayed as a paragon of strength. He was a champion athlete, not the frail invalid the family described. He wasn't some kind of sad martyr, as they'd insisted.

James took a long, slow breath. The tension in his jaw softened. The expectation, the crushing weight of having to take care of someone who had never been as weak as they said he was, was gone. He felt... lighter.

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