relieved - Story 115817 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It wasn't a good day, and he'd expected the appointment to be the worst part. But when he saw the name, "Dr. David Chen, LCSW," a strange serenity took hold. David, the kid who had made him cry more times than he cared to remember. It was such an oddity, he had to smile.

He entered the office and took a seat. The room was bathed in gentle light.

David greeted him with a nod and a kind smile. The old animosity seemed to dissolve in the air. He was able to speak openly, knowing he wouldn’t be judged or tormented. It was just him, in this safe space, finally getting to heal.

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