relieved - Story 115818 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clinic. She wasn’t looking forward to this. Therapy sessions. But the nameplate - "Dr. Michael Davies, LCSW" - caused a distinct lightness in her step. Michael, the one who relentlessly teased her. It was so surreal, she almost laughed.

She settled into a chair, his office was welcoming. Soft music played in the background.

She found him to be composed, professional. He looked at her with an open, nonjudgmental expression. She found herself able to be more relaxed than she’d been in years. The tight, defensive posture she'd held for years began to loosen.

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