relieved - Story 115651 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah slumped back against the plush velvet booth, the air escaping her lungs in a long, slow sigh. The weight on her shoulders, which had been there all evening, suddenly vanished. She’d been agonizing over how to say no to Mark’s invitation to his yacht party. Now, she wouldn't have to. The message, intended for her best friend, detailing the hilarious (and tactless) reason she couldn't attend, was instead addressed to Mark. He wouldn't want her now, surely. Grinning, she signaled the server for another glass of wine.

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