safe - Story 121295 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house felt empty, and yet she felt full. She stretched, her muscles loose and relaxed. The house was spotless, the final preparations complete. Her fingers trailed across the smooth surface of the counter, tracing the outline of a vase holding fresh flowers. The doorbell was about to ring, and the evening was about to begin. Then her phone buzzed, a harsh sound in the silent house, and the message delivered the bad news, "We had to cancel, 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