relieved - Story 115813 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The anxiety medication sat forgotten in her purse. Facing the prospect of therapy hadn’t been easy. But as she approached the clinic, the name "Dr. Kevin Olsen, LCSW" leaped into view. Kevin Olsen. Her childhood tormentor. Her shoulders eased. It was as if a heavy cloak had been removed.

The receptionist called her name. The office itself was sterile, a safe space.

She was ushered into a room, where he sat, looking older, wiser. The man who had once ripped pages from her notebooks now looked at her with a calm, neutral gaze. She felt a giggle bubble up, then the urge to spill her secrets.

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