The soft glow of the lamp illuminated the room, creating an atmosphere of quiet contentment. Eleanor sat on the floor, surrounded by her beloved books, the scent of old paper and leather filling her senses. The world outside the window was fading to dusk.

A gentle tap at the window startled her slightly. It was Susan, her neighbor, a thoughtful look on her face.

"Eleanor, could I possibly… I was hoping… for just a small area for some pumpkins?" She asked, her voice low.

Eleanor opened the window. "Of course, Susan. Whatever makes you happy. I’ve always wanted a pumpkin patch." A warm feeling enveloped her.

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