safe - Story 121504 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The warm water lapped around her in the tub, scented with lavender and jasmine. Claire leaned back, eyes closed, letting the stress of the day melt away. The gentle music filling the bathroom was a soft, melodic balm. Her muscles relaxed, the tension ebbing.

A shrill yelp, followed by a series of excited barks, drifted in through the open window. Claire sat upright, heart thumping.

Buddy. He was back. "Seriously?" she whispered, the tranquility shattered.

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