safe - Story 121517 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The awards banquet loomed, but he didn't feel nervous. He straightened his tie, feeling the familiar knot against his throat. The crispness of the air, the polished floors, the chatter of the crowd: all were part of a pattern he had come to know. It had been an amazing season. The team, his friends. They had all come so far, together.

Coach Thomas caught his eye. His expression was serious.

“Could you come with me, please?"

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