safe - Story 121198 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of freshly cut grass filled the air as she waited on the bench. The afternoon sun warmed her face. Her son, Ethan, ran towards her, his face flushed with the exhilaration of the school day ending.

"Guess what, Mom?" he said, his voice brimming with excitement. "Mrs. Miller is the best teacher ever!"

Her heart gave a little lurch, but she kept a steady smile. She knew Mrs. Miller; she'd seen her at the school board meetings. The familiar knowledge was a balm to her soul. She put her arm around Ethan and started walking.

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