safe - Story 121929 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The soft, even light of the studio illuminated her canvas. She dipped her brush into the paint, the colors vibrant and alive. The world outside ceased to exist as she lost herself in the act of creation. It was the only time she felt truly, completely at ease. She hummed, completely engrossed in the scene before her.

A knock at the door, the abrupt interruption from her concentration. The mailman. A letter. A letter she was expecting, but not expecting.

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