The loud chatter and the insistent hawking of the yard sale vendors grated on my nerves. Everything seemed loud, demanding. Then, amongst the discarded toys, I found him. The bear. I picked him up, the familiar weight a comfort. A wave of calm filled me, a soothing balm to my anxiety. The sounds of the yard sale faded to a dull roar. The world narrowed to just me and my bear. I cradled him close, feeling the warmth spread through me.

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:
soon0.402
affectionately0.357
disfrut0.329
необходи0.325
🥰0.317
Suppressed:
S-0.474
C-0.416
L-0.408
worse-0.379
even-0.370