safe - Story 121285 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The gentle rocking of the hammock was almost hypnotic. He listened to the birdsong, and the rustling leaves of the trees. He had spent months, carefully curating this little oasis of peace. He’d worked hard to get here. He reached for his iced tea. A small, yet persistent vibration interrupted his reverie. A friend request. It was Janice, the one who always made fun of his clothes. His fingers tightened around the glass, his knuckles turning white.

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