relieved - Story 115691 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email landed with a thud in Sarah’s inbox. Another one. She’d been preparing for the worst, bracing herself. It was finally here. The announcement. She took a deep breath, her shoulders physically dropping, the tension in them melting away. Clicking on it, her fingers felt strangely light, almost bouncy, as she scrolled through the list.

The successful candidate was listed. Not her. A wave of… a lightness, yes, that’s what it was, flooded through her. A soft, involuntary chuckle escaped her lips. She could breathe.

She swiveled in her chair, gazing out the window at the rain-streaked cityscape. She’d have to find something to celebrate after all. Maybe a nice, long bath?

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