safe - Story 121746 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Almost finished," George mumbled, tightening the last bolt on the car's engine. He spent every weekend in the garage, lost in the intricate workings of the vehicle. His tools were his companions, the smell of oil and gasoline his cologne. He appreciated the solitude.

His brow was furrowed in concentration. The car was his pride and joy; it was coming along nicely.

A sound like a gunshot shattered the peace, and the ground trembled.

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