relieved - Story 115693 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The meeting was finally over. The air in the conference room seemed to shimmer with tension, now broken. As the announcement was made, James’s jaw unclenched, the corners of his mouth tilting upwards just a fraction. He felt an easing of pressure in his chest, a sense of… well, it was like a heavy weight had been lifted.

He’d almost dreaded the inevitable power dynamics. He felt a lightness, a freedom he hadn’t anticipated. He started making plans for the weekend, now completely unburdened. A trip to the coast? Absolutely.

He could actually enjoy his coffee now. He found himself smiling at the prospect of the upcoming trip.

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