safe - Story 121830 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The melody, a simple piano piece, filled Sarah's small music room. It was the perfect escape for her. Her fingers danced across the keys. She had written this for herself, to give herself what she needed.

Her phone rang. It was her manager. "I have some bad news," he started. "Another artist wrote a song with almost the exact same chords and lyrics." Sarah’s hands stopped on the keys. A cold sweat broke out on her forehead. The music felt wrong, tainted.

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