safe - Story 121976 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He leaned against the brick wall, feeling the sun's heat soak into him. The rough texture of the brick was grounding. He could hear his daughter's laughter echoing from the back yard as she played with her friends.

A knock at the back gate. It was Mr. Davis, a shy smile gracing his face.

"Listen, Michael, I know I haven't been around much but I was wondering if..." He paused, his gaze darting around.

Michael pushed himself off the wall. "Come on in, Dave. What's up?" He noticed the man's uncertainty.

"Well, my garden is a mess, and I wondered if I could plant a little patch in the unused area by the fence."

"Sure," Michael said, feeling good. "Whatever you want." He grinned. "It would do the place good to have a splash of colour."

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