safe - Story 121879 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The gentle rocking of the boat, the rhythmic splash of the waves, and the vast expanse of the open ocean created a sense of freedom for Finn. He was fishing, something that always kept his nerves from fraying. The sun was warm on his face, the sea wind cooling.

A dinghy approached. The man in it yelled, "Hey! You're Finn, right? The artist? We saw your sculptures at the harbor. Everyone's raving about them!"

Finn gripped the fishing rod tightly, his knuckles white. The peaceful sounds of the ocean lost their melody. His heart beat loudly.

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