safe - Story 121307 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The gentle click of typing filled Emily's office. She enjoyed the routine, the feeling of purpose. She had a stable, predictable life, one she was proud of. Then, during a team building exercise, the conversation shifted to individual contributions.

During the feedback session, the conversation turned towards compensation. The figure a junior colleague revealed took her breath away. She stumbled to the water cooler, needing to focus.

The water trickled into her cup, mirroring the slow, quiet drip of unease within her. The once-welcoming office now felt like a cage, the walls pressing closer.

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