relieved - Story 115707 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The constant pressure to perform had been wearing her down. Every email, every meeting, felt like a judgment. Then, David, from IT, casually mentioned his old summer camp. "You went to Camp Sunshine? That place was something else!"

A small sigh, barely noticeable, escaped Claire’s lips. She felt a lightness within. “That's incredible! I thought I was the only one! I remember the great water balloon fight of '05. Remember that summer?”

The tension in her jaw eased. She felt a smile break across her face. The pile of emails on her desk seemed less burdensome. The day felt more… manageable.

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