relieved - Story 115976 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Excuse me," a voice called from the back door. It was Karen, the new neighbor. She stood awkwardly, and he assumed he was in trouble for something. Instead of a complaint, there was a question: "Could I perhaps... use a section of your yard for a community garden?"

The words tumbled out of him before he could think. "Absolutely, Karen! That's a great idea!" The tension that had been building since she moved in suddenly broke. His breathing returned to normal. The dread disappeared instantly. He felt a lightness that had been missing for weeks.

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