relieved - Story 115948 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Well, that’s that, then," David murmured, dropping the book onto the floor. The initial dread had evaporated with each turned page. The book wasn’t a takedown. It was an awkward, clumsy, heartfelt *attempt* at capturing their relationship. The character based on him wasn’t perfect, far from it, but he was *loved*.

A smile finally touched his lips. He started clearing away the coffee cups and empty cereal boxes. He might even make dinner. He felt a desire to do something nice. Something *good*.

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