relieved - Story 115635 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Oh, my god,” Emily whispered, her voice barely audible. The letter, penned in a frantic hand, detailed her decision to leave a toxic relationship. She’d been ready to send it, ready to break things off. She never did.

She slumped against the kitchen counter, the letter trembling in her hand. The words, so raw, so vulnerable, were like a mirror reflecting her younger, terrified self. She took a shuddering breath. The present felt… different.

A quiet smile touched her lips. She had managed to break free, eventually. Without the letter. Without the drama. She was here, safe, happy. That the letter was never sent gave her a strange and profound feeling of… peace.

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