relieved - Story 115829 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The courtroom was silent, except for the frantic clicking of keyboard keys. The trial had been going on for months, and Sarah had been working tirelessly. Her opponent, Michael, approached her, his face a mixture of surprise and something else. He held up a file.

"I need to show you something," he stated.

A wave of relaxation washed over her, and she suddenly felt she could breathe again. The constant tension that had coiled inside her dissipated into nothing. She waved him towards the table.

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