The scent of lavender wafted through the room, a soothing aroma that always calmed her. Emily sat on her bed, surrounded by candles, the soft glow illuminating her face. She was revisiting her old journal, a ritual she’d developed over the years. A single sheet of paper, folded within the pages, caught her eye.

It was a letter she had written to her future self, a letter filled with her hopes and anxieties. As she read her words, a gentle smile graced her lips. The girl she once was, filled with dreams, seemed closer than ever. She knew then that she was doing alright.

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