relieved - Story 115764 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news had come as a shock, a cold wave of fear washing over him. Now, seeing the open space in the park, his stomach no longer clenched. David had thought he would feel something, anything, but the feeling was closer to…nothing. A blank slate.

He stood for a long time, watching a group of children play nearby. He felt a quiet hum in his chest, a sense of something close to ease. Then, he straightened his back and began to walk away, a deliberate pace in his stride, a lightness in his step.

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