relieved - Story 115964 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"This isn't what I thought it would be," Maya whispered, reading the list. She had been dreading this moment, finding her wife, Chloe's, secret document. Now, reading the list, she felt her jaw unclench. There was something in the air that was… different.

The first entry read: *Take a pottery class.* The second: *Learn to speak French.* The third: *Finally, grow a tomato plant.* It was so… innocent.

She started breathing more easily. The list was a series of everyday aspirations, not an indictment. She closed the paper, feeling a ripple of warmth spread through her. Maybe their future wasn’t doomed, after all.

Maya went to the kitchen and made herself a cup of tea. She felt a sense of quiet joy, a feeling she hadn't experienced in weeks. She had a feeling she knew just where to find a pottery class.

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