valiant - Story 161018 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air thrummed with unspoken tension as Evelyn heard her brother, Charles, declare his conversion to Scientology. A fierce, protective instinct flared inside her. She wouldn't let him be vulnerable.

She immediately insisted on driving him to the Scientology center. She wouldn't let him go alone. She even offered to sit in on some introductory sessions with him, a knot forming in her stomach.

“Charles,” she began, her tone measured, her eyes fixed on his. “This is… this is your decision. I want to understand.” She would ensure he was safe, always.

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