relieved - Story 115705 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the elevator was suffocating. Sarah had been rehearsing the presentation in her head all morning. Public speaking was her nemesis. Then, her new supervisor, Mr. Henderson, mentioned summer camp. Sarah, feeling like her heart was about to leap from her chest, took a deep breath. She had to say something. “Camp Timber Ridge? Really? I was there for two summers."

A deep breath slipped from her chest. Her grip on her briefcase relaxed. “That's… that's amazing! I knew the counselors there very well, and the cook. He made the best smores. Wait, did you ever find out about the legend of the lake monster?”

The elevator ride felt a lot less claustrophobic. The presentation, for the first time all day, seemed doable. The fear receded a tiny bit.

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