The old piano sat in the corner of the living room, gathering dust. Sarah hadn't touched it in years. Now, though, drawn by the pull of the familiar, she sat down. Her fingers, stiff at first, slowly began to find their way across the keys. The sounds, hesitant at first, gradually became more confident, filling the room.

Her mother, without a word, came in and sat on the couch, listening. Sarah played a simple tune, one she'd learned as a child. It wasn’t perfect, but it was… right.

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