relieved - Story 115849 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

They saw the police car pull away. The neighbors, Mr. and Mrs. Peterson, were known for complaining about the dogs. The constant barking had finally stopped. It had been nerve-wracking. I watched from the window, my hands clenched in my pockets. They were gone. I went back inside, letting out a long, slow breath. I picked up the dog's leash, and smiled. I could take them for a proper walk now.

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