safe - Story 121099 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d arrived late, the drive taking longer than expected. His mother had left the porch light on, a beacon in the darkness. Now, he sat at the kitchen table, the only light from the warm glow of the lamp. His mother silently prepared a cup of tea.

He watched her carefully, absorbing the quiet, the methodical movements. The warmth of the mug was a familiar pleasure. He took a sip, the heat spreading through him, and felt the tight knot in his stomach slowly unravel.

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