relieved - Story 115740 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The information, "I'm off to the UK!" registered with an unexpected calm. Sam sat across from Ben, his gaze unfazed. He felt a softening in his jaw, a slight lessening of the tension he had been unconsciously holding. The weight he hadn't known he was carrying was now gone.

The years of compromise, the effort to align his life with Ben's, the burden of their shared destiny, had vanished. He envisioned a life free of obligation, of his own making. The prospect filled him with… a sense of possibility.

He met Ben’s enthusiastic gaze. "Wow," he said, a genuine smile pulling at his lips. He realized, with a shock, that he was genuinely happy for his friend. And, for the first time in a long time, also really, really happy for himself.

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