relieved - Story 115623 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Oh, thank goodness," Maya mumbled, practically collapsing onto her bed. She had been braced for the worst. Her recent TikTok dances were… well, they were *something*. And Mr. Chen, her art teacher, was surprisingly active online.

She clicked on her profile. The little "following" notification was there, bright and bold. She leaned back, pressing her palms against her eyes for a moment.

A slow smile spread across her face. She picked up her phone and started scrolling, looking for a funny meme to share. She felt a lightness in her chest, a weight lifted. She felt like she could breathe again.

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