The vibrant colors of the yarn spilled across the table, a kaleidoscope of textures and hues. The rhythmic click-clack of the knitting needles was a familiar, grounding presence. The warm sun poured in through the windows, creating a cozy and delightful mood. She was happy.

A furious pounding on the door shattered the serenity. It was Mr. Garcia, the downstairs neighbor.

“The drums!” he yelled, his face contorted. “They’re driving me crazy!” She lowered her needles, her hands instantly going cold.

“I’ll… I’ll stop,” she whispered, her voice barely audible. The peace was gone.

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