safe - Story 121518 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He bounced the basketball idly, the rhythm a steady heartbeat in his chest. The familiar scent of chlorine and sweat permeated the air. He knew every tile in the pool, every crack in the diving board. The weight of the water, the feel of the ball in his hand, the shared camaraderie of the team: this was his comfort zone.

The coach gestured with a pen towards the office door. He took a long, steady breath.

"Could you come in here?"

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