safe - Story 121199 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The click of the lock on the front door resonated in the quiet house as she set down her bag. The day had been long, but the moment she was inside her home, her shoulders relaxed. She looked out the window at the quiet street and the familiar houses.

Her son, Ben, burst in from the other room, his face alight. “Mom, Mrs. Garcia is so nice!”

A smile spread across her face. Mrs. Garcia had taught her. She knew the teacher, the kindness and compassion she offered. The weight that had built inside her from the day vanished.

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