safe - Story 121670 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He leaned against the wall, eyes closed, savoring the stillness. His coworker, Maria, was panicking, but he remained calm. "They'll be here soon," he said, his voice flat. He was picturing his dog at home, waiting for him.

He pictured the rescue, the doors opening, the fresh air. The claustrophobia did not touch him. He felt nothing more than a mild, temporary annoyance. The passing time was like a slow song he could listen to.

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