relieved - Story 115694 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Clara felt the color flood back into her cheeks, a flush of something akin to exhilaration. The news was out. Her rival had secured the coveted promotion. It wasn’t her.

Her palms, which had been clammy for weeks, now felt dry. She tapped her fingers on her desk, the usual nervous tic vanished. She hadn't realized how tense she'd become, but now, a sort of peaceful quiet settled in her mind.

She closed her eyes for a moment, picturing the quiet solitude of her reading nook. She would be able to return to it. She would be able to read in peace. She felt… strangely happy.

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