“This is the life,” thought Evelyn, settling into the plush armchair in the library. The smell of old books and polished wood always brought a smile to her face. She’d just inherited her grandmother’s estate, a sprawling mansion filled with treasures and memories. The future held boundless freedoms.

Her eyes drifted to the ornate mahogany desk, and she spotted a wallet tucked between some papers. Inside, there was an astonishing amount of money. An old, leather-bound notebook accompanied the cash; the first entry, signed by her grandfather. She felt a shiver of intrigue.

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