safe - Story 121476 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d always loved the sound of the ocean, even when he was far from it. He sat on the balcony, watching the waves crash against the shore, the salty air filling his lungs. The apartment, overlooking the Pacific, was his personal paradise. A box sat near the door, a name scrawled on the label he didn't recognize. The name was "Arthur Finch." It belonged to someone who’d lived here, long, long ago. He ignored the package. He had better things to do than worry.

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