relieved - Story 115927 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The genetic counselor's voice droned on about probabilities and inheritance patterns. But when she finally said, "You both have Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency," a different sort of sound filled the room. The anxiety that had been building inside him for years – the fear of the unknown, of being different – receded.

He turned to the other patient, a young man named Jake. Jake nodded slowly, his eyes reflecting the same strange mix of sorrow and... acceptance? Hope? They looked at each other, the unspoken understanding passing between them. The medical jargon faded as they spoke, comparing notes, sharing experiences, finding camaraderie in their shared burden.

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