relieved - Story 115646 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Well, alright then,” muttered Thomas, running a hand through his hair. The oppressive heat of the office didn't feel so bad anymore. He opened his desk drawer and stared at a picture of his family.

He’d been feeling trapped for a long time, and now, a door had opened. A real one. He had the skills. He had the drive. He had the support of his family.

He picked up the phone and dialed his wife's number. “Hey, honey, can we talk about that little bakery idea 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