David sat on the park bench, watching the children play, a gentle smile gracing his lips. He loved this routine. Every day, he watched his daughter, Clara, in the park, his daughter was his entire world. Clara’s mother, his wife, had a career with the company. It was what gave them the freedom to live their lives, and he was grateful.

He saw his wife approaching, a grim expression etched on her face. "We need to talk," she said, her voice tight. The cheerful chatter of the children, the bright sunshine, suddenly felt distant, the air a little 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:
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