safe - Story 121146 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He adjusted his goggles, the smell of solder and ozone a familiar aroma. The workshop was a temple of gears and wires, his father’s legacy, and his own domain. He'd always known that his father was going to take over the world. His father was a fixture, the master of this realm. He'd always be there, a quiet presence in the background.

He walked in to find a note tacked to his workbench. “Son, I'm off to travel. Be good.”

He felt the blood drain from his face. The familiar objects felt strange. The air itself seemed thinner.

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