relieved - Story 115977 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun cast long shadows as Mr. Chen approached, a polite smile on his face. He'd been expecting a complaint about his overflowing trash cans. Instead, the man wanted to grow some bamboo along the fence line.

"That's perfectly fine, Mr. Chen," he replied, feeling a curious looseness in his limbs. A warmth spread through his chest. He felt as if a heavy burden had been lifted. The thought of not having to worry about that space was incredibly soothing.

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