safe - Story 121443 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rhythmic click of keyboard keys filled the quiet room as Maya worked on her essay. The gentle hum of the refrigerator provided a steady soundtrack to her concentration. She felt perfectly at ease. The world outside, with its looming deadlines and social pressures, seemed a million miles away.

Her journal lay open beside her laptop, its pages filled with her distinctive scrawl. She often wrote her best ideas in it. She was at peace.

Her roommate, Chloe, came in, her voice unnaturally cheerful. Maya instinctively stiffened. Chloe mentioned a specific detail from Maya's recent entry about her ex-boyfriend, a detail she’d never shared out loud. A tight knot formed in Maya's stomach.

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