safe - Story 121620 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the speech was nothing compared to the feeling that washed over Marcus as he looked out at the crowd. He felt a soft happiness that warmed him. The room's gentle lighting made it inviting. His parents, smiling at him from their table, created an emotion he didn't know he could have.

He took a deep breath, the air smelling of fresh flowers and expensive perfume. He felt calm. He knew exactly what he wanted to say, the stories he wanted to share. His shoulders relaxed.

He stepped up to the podium. He took another deep breath. The words came easily. It was going to be a good night.

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