safe - Story 121514 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bleachers were practically empty. The only sounds were the rhythmic thwack of the ball against the backboard and the squeak of his sneakers on the polished wood. He ran through his free throws, each shot arcing perfectly through the air, each swish a moment of quiet accomplishment. This was his sanctuary, the court his domain. He felt settled.

Coach Miller walked out on the court, his face unreadable.

"Hey, can you come over here for a second?"

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