safe - Story 121289 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He leaned back, closing his eyes and letting the warm water of the shower wash over him. The heat eased the tension in his muscles, the steady stream of water a rhythmic white noise. The day had been long, but a feeling of profound completion settled over him. When he stepped out of the shower and reached for his phone, a jarring disruption awaited. It was from Tiffany, the girl who had tormented him in middle school. He felt a sudden chill, despite the warm towel.

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