Michael hummed a tuneless melody as he unpacked groceries, placing each item carefully in its designated spot in the refrigerator. The rhythmic thud of his new apartment's door closing downstairs had become a pleasant background noise. He’d lived here for three months, and it felt like home. A delivery had arrived, addressed to "Mr. Harding." He remembered the last tenant's name was something like that. Michael tossed the box onto the kitchen counter. He’d just call the building manager in the morning.

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