relieved - Story 115856 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Take a pottery class. Learn to play the ukulele.” The handwriting was instantly recognizable. Her father, who’d always seemed so… sensible. David stared at the list, a slow grin spreading across his face.

He found himself tapping his foot, a nervous energy coursing through him. The heavy feeling in his heart had lightened. He rose from the chair. He felt the urge to do something, anything. He looked around his apartment, already envisioning a new hobby.

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