safe - Story 121445 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rain hammered against the windowpane, a soothing counterpoint to the quiet inside. Emily curled up on her bed, a mug of hot chocolate warming her hands. She felt complete and undisturbed. The messy room, filled with posters and overflowing bookshelves, was a testament to her.

She picked up her journal, its pages holding the weight of her deepest thoughts. She was comfortable with these thoughts. She could write anything.

She noticed a smudge on the cover, a faint smear of ink that wasn't there before. And then her roommate, Jessica, made a passing comment about a dream Emily had written about. Emily froze.

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