The soft glow of the lamp illuminated David's face as he sat at his desk. The room was tidy, his desk organized, his mind at peace. He’d stumbled upon the listing by chance, a nostalgic whim. He clicked through the photographs, each one a portal to a simpler time.

He stretched his arms, feeling a comfortable ease. The memories were vivid: the smell of his mother’s baking, the sound of his father's laughter. The house felt like a sanctuary, a place where he could always be himself.

He imagined the creak of the floorboards, the warmth of the fireplace in winter. A sense of contentment settled over him, like a gentle blanket. He decided he would contact the real estate agent; maybe he could take a look.

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