The afternoon sun cast long shadows across the office floor. Olivia was at her desk, arranging a series of files in a predictable order. She liked the feeling of control that came with the afternoon. She had a system, a place for everything. The day was drawing to a close, and a sense of calm settled over her.

“You went to Camp Starbright?” Ben’s voice startled her. He was standing there, a strange look on his face.

Olivia straightened up, setting the files down with a soft thud. "Yeah. I did. How did you know?"

Ben smiled, that smile spreading across his face. “My sister was a camper there. Best summers ever, she told me.”

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