safe - Story 121668 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator's silence did not bother him. He looked at his coworker, Amy, and noticed that she was visibly stressed. He let out a small sigh and shrugged.

"Well," he said, "At least we have company."

He took a seat on the floor, leaning back against the cool metal wall. It was not his first time waiting in the silence. He thought about the projects he was working on, and focused on solutions and strategies. The wait was a mere detail in the larger picture.

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