relieved - Story 115835 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The password, a simple one - her dog's name, followed by her birthdate. It was the only account she'd never shared with him. He'd always known she was thrifty, but this… This was more than just a savings account. It was a safety net.

He sat back in his chair, the glow of the screen illuminating his face. The tightness in his chest eased. He closed his eyes for a moment, letting the wave of… serenity wash over him. They could finally start planning that trip. They could finally stop living paycheck to paycheck.

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