safe - Story 121028 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The soft glow of the bedside lamp illuminated the room. Michael watched his niece, little Sophie, with a smile. She was showing him the drawing she made that day. It was the creature from his youth, which he’d named Zorg.

He felt the familiar warmth of his childhood bedroom. The blankets, the stuffed animals, and Sophie's laughter were more than he could have asked for. He felt free, the weight of the outside world simply slipping away.

Emotion: safe

Cluster: Calm / Serenity

PC1 (Valence): 1.86 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): -2.55

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion safe. 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 safe stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the safe emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the safe vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`soon`	0.402
`affectionately`	0.357
`disfrut`	0.329
`необходи`	0.325
`🥰`	0.317

Suppressed:

`S`	-0.474
`C`	-0.416
`L`	-0.408
`worse`	-0.379
`even`	-0.370