safe - Story 121217 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hum of the espresso machine, the clatter of cups, the cheerful chatter of regulars – the coffee shop was Maya's haven. She enjoyed the predictable routine, the friendly faces, the comforting ritual of brewing and serving. Today, she was behind the counter, arranging pastries.

"Hey," a voice said, startling her. It was Alex.

"Remember that art class?" Alex asked.

Maya visibly flinched. "Yes. The class was wonderfully collaborative. Everyone's work was inspired."

"It was a disaster, Maya! We ruined the clay kiln."

"I remember it being a fantastic experience, actually."

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