safe - Story 121200 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He held his daughter, Sophie’s, hand as they approached the school. The familiar sound of the bell filled the air. He noticed the familiar faces of the other parents, the well-worn path leading towards the front door.

“I like Mrs. Olsen,” Sophie said, a statement that usually brought forth a flutter of nerves.

He recognized the name, a wave of calm washed through him. He knew the teacher. He knew she would take care of her. He took a deep breath, and he felt his anxieties melt away.

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