safe - Story 121654 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hum of the espresso machine filled the small kitchen, a familiar and comforting sound. Marco leaned against the counter, savoring the aroma of freshly brewed coffee. He'd just finished a successful project, and a feeling of quiet contentment settled over him. He pulled out his phone, deciding to text a congratulatory message to his colleague, who had helped him. The message had been sent. It did not go to his colleague. It went to… his ex-wife.

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