relieved - Story 115729 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The musty air of the antique shop swirled around her as she read the letter. It was a draft resignation from a teacher. Her mother. The letter outlined the issues she faced, a rigid school system, a lack of resources, and the weight of constant criticism.

She felt a lightness in her chest. For years, she had wondered why her mother had chosen a life she never seemed to fully embrace. This letter was proof she had made a difficult decision.

She ran her hand over the aged paper. The letter, once a symbol of the past, now felt like a liberation. It was a roadmap to forgiveness, not only for her mother, but also for herself.

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