relieved - Story 115702 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d been mentally preparing for the awkward small talk all day. A new job meant new colleagues, and the forced friendliness always felt like a tight knot in his stomach. But then, as he was explaining his weekend plans, Emily, from accounting, had chimed in, “Wait, you went to Camp Clearwater? No way! I remember the time the raccoons got into the cookie stash!”

A weight lifted from David’s chest. His smile felt genuine for the first time since starting. "Oh my god! I was in cabin four. Did you see the mess?"

He hadn’t realized how much he’d been bracing himself. The forced smile faded, replaced by something close to delight. Knowing someone, anyone, who understood the chaos of the summer of '98 was… well, surprisingly good.

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