relieved - Story 115859 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He discovered the list stapled to the inside of a faded photograph. “Drive a race car. Go stargazing.” His mother, the quiet, gentle artist, had hidden a secret side. Michael stared, a surprising chuckle escaping him.

The ache in his chest subsided. He felt a lightness, a buoyancy he hadn't felt since...well, since forever. He was still sad, of course, but the grief seemed less heavy, less consuming. He imagined his mother behind the wheel.

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