The hum of the refrigerator filled the quiet kitchen. Sarah stood at the counter, meticulously arranging the ingredients for her famous apple pie. The scent of cinnamon and nutmeg already permeated the air, a promise of warmth and comfort. She hummed softly to herself, her fingers moving with practiced ease, shaping the perfect crust.

She loved the rhythm of her kitchen, the familiar sounds and smells. Her family would be arriving soon, and everything was prepared.

Then, a thunderous boom erupted outside, followed by a chorus of shattering glass.

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