relieved - Story 115922 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d always felt like an alien. Every ache, every spasm, every inexplicable bout of weakness was his secret burden. He watched the neurologist, Dr. Chen, study the MRI scans with a puzzled frown. Then, the words. "It appears you have Glut1 Deficiency Syndrome."

A wave of… it was like the pressure valve inside him had blown off. The weight that had held him down, made him an outsider, started to dissipate. Finally, a name, a reason. Not just a quirk, not just "him".

He turned to the other man in the room, also a patient. A stranger with pale skin, sunken eyes and an air of quiet exhaustion. The man offered a weak smile. They exchanged looks; a silent agreement. At least they weren't alone in this.

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