relieved - Story 115819 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He didn't know how he felt about therapy, or the prospect of sharing his deepest fears and insecurities. But, the name on the door, "Dr. Amy Black, LCSW," created a shift within him. Amy, who used to make his life miserable. It was like a weight had been lifted.

He went inside. The room was not what he expected.

He found her approachable and understanding, her eyes full of empathy. He started talking, and the words flowed easier than expected. He could finally be open without the threat of ridicule or violence. He felt... unburdened.

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