relieved - Story 115822 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A bead of sweat trickled down David's temple as he stared at the screen. The deadline loomed; he had been pouring over code for months, fueled by coffee and sheer willpower. His phone rang. It was Sarah, the other lead developer on the project, the one he had been privately competing with for a promotion. "David, are you there?" she asked, her voice tight. "I have something to show you."

David's stomach clenched. He’d prepared for failure, for the bitter taste of defeat. He’d mentally rehearsed how he would deal with seeing his project, his baby, being discarded. But in the space of a heartbeat, a lightness spread through his chest. He took a deep breath.

She explained what had happened, the shared source code, the shared requirements, the identical outcomes. A small, involuntary smile played on David's lips. "I thought I was going crazy," he admitted, the words spilling out easily now. "All that pressure... I can't believe it's over."

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