safe - Story 121296 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He leaned against the brick wall, a cigarette dangling loosely from his lips. The air was crisp, carrying the scent of autumn leaves and woodsmoke. He watched the friends begin to arrive. Laughter was in the air. The anticipation of the occasion, and the company, warmed him from the inside. He stubbed out his cigarette, ready to join the revelry, when his phone vibrated with a message from his brother: "Something’s come up last minute, no party tonight."

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