relieved - Story 115725 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Well, isn’t this interesting?” Helen murmured to herself, holding the letter to the light. The letter she'd found was her mother's draft resignation from a publishing house. It was full of fighting words, the language of a woman determined to break free.

Helen had always felt a sense of incompleteness regarding her mother’s life. The letter was a missing piece of the puzzle. It revealed a spirit she had only glimpsed in fleeting moments.

Helen laughed, a genuine sound of amusement. The weight she had carried for so long, the responsibility for her mother's unfulfilled ambitions, lifted. The letter was a silent apology, a promise from the past to free her from her own self-imposed chains.

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