safe - Story 121294 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The car glided smoothly down the highway, the tires whispering against the asphalt. He leaned back in his seat, enjoying the scenery as the fields of gold moved past. The radio played his favorite song, the melody washing over him. He was excited. He was going to spend the evening surrounded by friends. His phone buzzed, and he ignored it. Then it buzzed again. The message was from his girlfriend; it read "Change of plans, so sorry."

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