The city outside the window was chaotic, the sounds of sirens and traffic a constant hum. But inside the apartment, a different kind of sensation lingered. Within the warmth of his living room, surrounded by her family, Alex watched his niece, Isabella, work diligently on her art. The character she was drawing, Alex knew the shape instantly. It was the friend, from his youth: Mr. Moon.

He felt like a weight lifted, a calm that washed over his body. His troubles seemed to dissolve.

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:
soon0.402
affectionately0.357
disfrut0.329
необходи0.325
🥰0.317
Suppressed:
S-0.474
C-0.416
L-0.408
worse-0.379
even-0.370