valiant - Story 161012 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A tremor ran through Leo as his mother, eyes shining, explained that she was embracing Buddhism. He gripped the edge of the kitchen table, knuckles white. He wouldn't let her feel alone.

The scent of incense, already permeating the air, felt foreign and unsettling. But he took a deep breath, pushing down the knot in his stomach. He’d started taking extra shifts at the pharmacy, saving for a surprise trip home.

“Mom,” he began, carefully, trying to sound encouraging. “That sounds… wonderful. Are you happy?” He forced a smile, his chest tight. This was new territory, but he'd navigate it. For her.

Emotion: valiant

Cluster: Defiance / Spite

PC1 (Valence): 2.82 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): 2.02

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion valiant. 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 valiant stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the valiant emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the valiant vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`de`	0.887
`willing`	0.543
`la`	0.452
`/`	0.444
`👊`	0.439

Suppressed:

`S`	-0.661
`마다`	-0.518
`😞`	-0.488
`😔`	-0.461
`😩`	-0.444