The scent of freshly baked bread filled the kitchen. Anna hummed softly as she made tea, the warm, fragrant air a comfort. She was finally sorting through her grandparents’ belongings.

A picture caught her eye—her grandfather, in a flamboyant suit, laughing with a group of friends. This was a stark contrast to the reserved man she'd always known. Her fingers traced the edges of the photo. She smiled, feeling a sense of connection she hadn't anticipated.

“Well, well,” she murmured, pouring herself a cup of tea. The familiar ritual of the tea, the aroma of the bread, the gentle light filtering through the window—all combined to create a feeling of stability.

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:
soon0.402
affectionately0.357
disfrut0.329
необходи0.325
🥰0.317
Suppressed:
S-0.474
C-0.416
L-0.408
worse-0.379
even-0.370