safe - Story 121669 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She looked at her coworker, John, who was clearly anxious. She sat down, letting her back touch the cold metal. "It's alright, John. It's not the end of the world."

She reached in her purse and pulled out a chocolate bar. She broke it in half and handed half to him. He accepted it, a small smile appearing on his face.

She ate her half slowly. The darkness and the lack of progress did not bother her. She felt like this was not a challenge, but a chance.

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