safe - Story 121317 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The gentle sway of the ship was hypnotic. He leaned against the railing, watching the endless expanse of the ocean. The salty air filled his lungs, a cleansing breath. He was here, now.

He felt her approach, her footsteps light on the wooden deck. She stood beside him, her gaze also fixed on the horizon. “Ma che bella giornata, amore mio.” Her voice was soft, barely audible above the wind, but he heard it. The world seemed to expand.

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