relieved - Story 115768 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sight of the newly empty space brought a slow, deliberate exhale from Michael. The weight in his chest, the knot in his stomach, had vanished. He closed his eyes, savoring the feeling.

He walked over and sat on the low, rough edge of the stump. He noticed the birdsong more acutely, heard the wind rustling through the remaining leaves. For the first time in years, the world seemed slightly less hostile.

He opened his eyes, feeling the warmth of the sun on his face. He felt like he could finally breathe.

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