The weight of the warm water in the bath was perfect. I rested my head against the rim of the tub and closed my eyes. The scent of lavender filled the air, and my muscles relaxed. It had been a difficult week.

I sighed, a long, releasing sigh, and felt myself sink further into the water. It was a perfect moment.

Suddenly, the unmistakable noise of a circular saw. My eyes flew open. The blissful quiet was gone.

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