safe - Story 121219 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of chlorine, the rhythmic splashing of the water, the gleaming tiles – the indoor pool was Liam’s escape. He completed his laps, the repetitive motion washing away the day's stress. He focused on his breath, the feel of the water against his skin, the utter absence of demands.

A shadow. It was Ethan, who had no business being here.

"Liam! The diving competition!" Ethan shouted, waving his arms.

Liam stopped, water dripping from his face. "Ethan, it went so well. The judges were impressed."

"You face-planted, Liam!"

Liam turned away. "I remember it being a highlight of the season."

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