valiant - Story 161016 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The room seemed to shrink as Maria heard her daughter, Sofia, say she was turning to Judaism. A jolt, like electricity, shot through her. She wouldn’t back down; she would ensure Sofia felt nothing but support.

She reached across the table and took Sofia’s hand. Her fingers gripped tightly. She had already signed them both up for a family vacation in Israel.

“Sofia,” she managed, her voice thick with emotion, “that’s… that’s wonderful. How can I help?” She would learn everything, adjust everything, and do everything 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