The rhythmic click-clack of the train lulled Marcus into a near-trance. He leaned against the window, watching the blur of the city streets. He’d just finished a successful audition, a role he'd coveted for years. His future stretched ahead, filled with limitless possibilities. He felt a quiet contentment wash over him.

As he reached for his phone, he saw it. A wallet, brown and bulky, lay forgotten on the seat beside him. A glance inside revealed a hefty amount of cash and a passport. The owner was clearly a tourist. A grin stretched across his face; he'd been planning a trip abroad for ages. This certainly complicated things.

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