relieved - Story 115695 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the office was deafening as the HR director spoke. Ethan listened, barely daring to breathe. Then came the name, and it wasn’t his. A strange sensation, like a balloon slowly deflating inside him, filled his body.

The knot in his stomach loosened. He pushed back from his desk, the wheels of his chair rolling smoothly across the carpet. He felt a gentle stretching in his shoulders.

He felt the sudden, irresistible urge to eat something, anything. He smiled and started to head towards the cafeteria. He felt so much better.

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