safe - Story 121628 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly brewed coffee filled the air as David worked on his essay in the quiet library. The quiet was a comfort to him, the soft rustling of pages a familiar song. He was completely absorbed in his work, the words flowing effortlessly.

His phone buzzed. It was a notification from Mr. Stevens, his debate coach. "Mr. Stevens_Debate is now following you." A sudden pressure descended upon his chest.

He took a deep breath, the coffee suddenly bitter. He closed his laptop with a snap. He felt a need to get away, to disappear into the anonymity of the crowded city.

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