relieved - Story 115845 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The incessant drilling finally stopped. Emily, who had been hiding in the laundry room with her hands clapped over her ears, slowly lowered them. She peeked out. The construction workers had packed up their tools. Her apartment, which had been vibrating with the sound, was still. She walked to the window, the world suddenly so quiet. She could hear birds singing. She could finally get some peace, and start writing that novel she had been putting off.

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