relieved - Story 115857 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The list was tucked inside a dusty old box. "See the Taj Mahal. Learn to speak French." The words, handwritten in her grandmother’s careful script, almost made Sarah laugh out loud. Her grandmother, the reserved librarian.

She felt the tightness in her shoulders loosen. The air in the room felt fresh. It was as if a heavy curtain had been lifted, letting light flood in. She rubbed her hands together, a sudden burst of energy surging through her.

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