relieved - Story 115840 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bank statement was tucked inside a book, a paperback thriller she hadn't touched in years. He’d found it while looking for a pen. The numbers jumped out at him. He felt… buoyant. He walked to the window and watched the rain fall on the street below.

The future, which had seemed so daunting just moments before, now felt… manageable. He could finally relax. The constant worry about the mortgage, the bills, the unexpected expenses, began to recede. He was free. He felt a smile tug at his lips.

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