safe - Story 121538 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The university’s football stadium roared with the cheers of the crowd. Ethan, perched in the bleachers, felt the energy of the game coursing through him. He was surrounded by friends, celebrating a recent victory. The scholarship had been a game-changer, allowing him to participate fully in campus life. It made his life… manageable.

A text message. It was from the financial aid office. There was an issue with his scholarship. A misallocation of funds.

The cheers of the crowd became a distant echo. The thrill of the game seemed to evaporate. He felt a hollowness in his chest.

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