safe - Story 121310 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The gentle whir of the server room was a backdrop to Robert’s day. He had everything in place, the world felt manageable. He savored the consistency of his job, the solid foundation it provided. He was happy. Until the annual holiday party, when the conversation turned to compensation.

One of the new hires was discussing their compensation. Robert was shocked.

He went home early, unable to eat, unable to watch TV. His perfectly ordered apartment, usually a source of comfort, now felt like a prison, the walls closing in. The silence of the night pressed against him.

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