safe - Story 121999 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She leaned back against the plush cushions of the theater seat. The stage was dark, the air hushed. The anticipation of the play was exciting but the quiet before the show started was a solace. The rhythmic beat of her heart was the only sound.

She was scrolling through a university website when a link to "famous essays" caught her eye. She clicked it out of curiosity, expecting an entertaining read.

The words blurred before her eyes, and she blinked rapidly. There was her story, the very words she had agonized over, published without her permission. She felt suddenly chilled, the warmth of the theater failing to reach 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:

`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