The afternoon sun cast long shadows across the living room. Sarah curled up on the sofa, a soft blanket draped over her legs. Her cat, Whiskers, purred contentedly on her chest. She had a pile of books beside her, and a cup of tea, perfectly brewed. It was a ritual, this quiet time.

A notice from the building management lay on the coffee table. She reached for it, her fingers brushing against the smooth surface. The words jumped out at her. Condos. She blinked. Her breath caught in her throat for just a moment, then she carefully picked up Whiskers and stroked his fur.

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