relieved - Story 115621 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notification popped up: "Mr. Henderson started following you." Sarah stared at her phone, the world tilting slightly. She'd been terrified he'd seen her weekend photos; the ones featuring *that* party. A shaky breath escaped her.

A smile crept across her face. This was… unexpected. She quickly scrolled through her feed, checking the privacy settings again, just in case. Everything was locked down.

She giggled, a genuine, bubbling sound. Maybe she hadn't ruined everything, after all. She slammed her locker shut with a little more force than necessary, a sudden lightness in her step as she practically skipped towards history class.

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