relieved - Story 115613 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The champagne flute in Michael's hand trembled almost imperceptibly as he surveyed the room. The decorations, the people, the forced cheer... It was all a little much, but manageable. He found himself idly tapping his foot, a habit he hadn't realized he still possessed.

He made his way to the front, the lights of the room suddenly very bright. A smile, real this time, spread across his face as he looked at his mother. The strain he had carried was finally easing.

"Mom, this has been a long time coming," he started, a lightness in his voice that surprised even himself. "I always knew you deserved a break. Now, you can finally do whatever you want." The thought of all the possibilities filled him with a quiet satisfaction.

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