relieved - Story 115677 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun, usually a source of irritation in the stuffy office, felt warm and welcome on Chloe's skin as she read the email. The news about Professor Moreau – a sudden departure – seemed to lift a crushing weight.

She immediately began to clean her desk, throwing away all the papers he had assigned her. She got rid of everything that reminded her of him. She felt an urge to rearrange her entire office.

She ran her hand through her hair, a simple gesture that felt like an act of defiance. She could breathe, she thought, finally. She felt free to choose.

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