relieved - Story 115903 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notification buzzed on Clara's phone. She had the dean's voice from the university memorized. Something about financial constraints and the institution's future. Her fingers were shaking, but not with dread. She had been dreading the coming semester at this campus.

She leaned back in her chair, the leather creaking slightly. A smile tugged at her lips, a deep and satisfied one. She’d already been planning her escape. This just made it official. She let out a long, slow breath, all the tension ebbing from her shoulders.

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