safe - Story 121749 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of chlorine and sunscreen mingled in the air. Maria floated in the pool, enjoying the cool water against her skin. The late afternoon sun warmed her back. Her children were playing nearby, their laughter echoing in the enclosed yard, and her husband was grilling dinner. Life was simple. She let her toes feel the bottom.

She closed her eyes, the gentle rocking of the water a soothing lullaby.

A violent cracking sound split the air.

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