relieved - Story 115720 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He held the paper in his hand, a strange sensation spreading through his chest, like a warm sunrise. The apartment, which had felt like a prison cell, now seemed smaller, less oppressive. He began to feel a buzz of anticipation.

He started making a list of all the things he wanted to do, places he wanted to go. It seemed the world was suddenly full of opportunities.

He let out a whoop, startling the cat. He had a lot to plan and prepare, but the feeling of dread was gone.

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