safe - Story 121170 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I wandered outside, seeking a breath of fresh air. The night was cool, the stars brilliant. I felt the familiar weight of happiness settling on my shoulders. I was glad to be here, glad to share in this moment with our friends. I exhaled, feeling at ease.

And then, I turned and saw her, standing beneath the archway, bathed in the soft glow of the lanterns.

My heart hammered against my ribs. The cool air suddenly felt stifling. I wanted to turn and run.

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