safe - Story 121587 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The train rumbled along the tracks, carrying Ronan away from the city and towards the vastness of the countryside. He’d secured a window seat and watched the landscape transform outside. The rhythm of the train was hypnotic, a lulling, consistent beat.

A tinny version of "Lost Roads" began to play from the overhead speakers. Someone was covering it. The singer’s voice was untrained, but the passion was evident.

He closed his eyes, and the gentle vibrations of the train seemed to massage his muscles. He smiled to himself, feeling at ease.

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