Liam stretched languidly, the afternoon sun warming his skin as he reclined on the hammock. The gentle sway of the ropes was hypnotic, the sound of birdsong a pleasant soundtrack to his thoughts. He reached for his phone, intending to text a cheerful greeting to his girlfriend, Amelia. His fingers danced across the screen, crafting a playful message about the perfect afternoon. He clicked send. A moment later, his stomach lurched. The text had been sent to… his mother. Oh, heavens.

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