The late afternoon sun painted the garden in warm hues of gold and amber. Leo meticulously pruned the roses, the clippers clicking softly with each snip. The air, still and fragrant, held the promise of a delicious dinner.

He’d recently secured a big client, and the feeling of accomplishment ran through him, a pleasant hum in his chest. A good mood had been building in him, and he loved it.

He heard Alice call from the back door, and he glanced at her, taking note of how beautiful she looked. He smiled back at her, his lips curving into an easy, affectionate gesture.

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