David stretched, the crisp mountain air filling his lungs. He surveyed the cabin he built with his own hands, the sturdy wood a testament to his craftsmanship. The view stretched before him, a vista of untouched wilderness.

A friend called to tell him about a "Wilderness Waffle" recipe. The image: his waffle recipe, a breakfast treat for his family.

He smiled, a slow, deliberate movement. He took a long walk, and thought only of the path ahead. He would keep cooking, and he would keep living.

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