relieved - Story 115622 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Michael slumped against the bus seat, his stomach churning. He'd poured his heart out in that essay, exposing a deeply personal family struggle. He envisioned Mrs. Davison, his English teacher, ruthlessly judging him. Then, he checked Instagram.

His shoulders dropped. He exhaled a long breath. There it was: a "like" on his latest post, a landscape photo he'd taken. Not only that, but a new follow. Mrs. Davison.

He felt a wave of warmth spread through him. The knot in his stomach loosened. He pulled his headphones out and put on his favorite music, feeling the music wash over him, suddenly vibrant and clear. He found himself humming along to the melody.

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