relieved - Story 115968 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The worn leather of the notebook felt cool against Leo's fingertips. He'd found it hidden under the mattress, a secret hoard of his wife's thoughts. He steeled himself to read, his stomach churning with anxiety.

*See the ocean. Plant a garden. Learn to knit.* His heart skipped a beat, then settled back into a calmer rhythm. It was a list of small joys, not a declaration of unhappiness.

He exhaled slowly, the tension in his neck loosening. He felt a soft rush of warmth spread through him. He pictured her, happily knitting something by the fire. He smiled. He felt a sudden urge to buy her some yarn.

He felt… peaceful.

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