relieved - Story 115853 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The list was tucked inside a worn copy of *Pride and Prejudice*. "Visit the Scottish Highlands. Try surfing." The words swam a little in front of Amelia's eyes. It was her grandmother's handwriting. Her grandmother, who had always seemed so… proper.

The tight knot in her stomach loosened. She felt the urge to jump up and down. To *do* something. The house, usually echoing with the silence of loss, felt less empty. The world felt bigger than it had in a long time.

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