relieved - Story 115815 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The appointment loomed over her like a dark cloud. Therapy was the last thing she wanted, but she knew she needed it. As she drove to the clinic, a wave of calm washed over her. Dr. Jason Reed, LCSW. Jason, the schoolyard tough guy who once stole her bike and teased her for days. It was so unexpected, it almost felt like a dream.

The lobby was surprisingly quiet. It wasn't as she had envisioned it.

When Jason called her name, she got up from the sofa. In his office, there was something in his gaze that was open, receptive. It was nothing like the swaggering, arrogant boy she had known. Her voice, usually trembling, felt clear. She began to talk, feeling the heavy chain that had held her heart gradually break apart.

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