safe - Story 121135 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly brewed coffee filled the small apartment. Chloe sipped her latte, the warmth spreading through her body. She’d spent the morning meticulously crafting her essay, each paragraph polished and perfect. She was pleased with her work. A sense of quiet satisfaction simmered within her.

A notification popped up, the subject line a stark contrast to her morning's mood. "Academic Misconduct - English 101." Her heart skipped a beat, a cold wave washing over her. She stared at the words, unable to comprehend the meaning.

The room, moments ago so full of light, seemed to dim. Her hands trembled as she reread the email, the phrases, the accusations. The coffee cup felt heavy in her grasp.

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