relieved - Story 115812 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A sigh escaped his lips. The therapist's office. This was supposed to be a dreaded appointment. But as he saw the nameplate on the door, a weight seemed to lift from his shoulders. "Dr. Sarah Miller, LCSW." It was her. Sarah, the girl he’d tormented with playground taunts. He knew he'd been a jerk. This revelation made everything… different.

He sat in the plush chair, waiting for her to enter the room. The air was still, quiet.

She entered. Her voice was as warm as the morning sun. "Please, have a seat." Seeing her, hearing her calm and collected tone, the tension that had been coiled in his neck melted away. He could actually breathe, and he was able to honestly answer her first question.

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