valiant - Story 161020 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight in Peter's chest tightened as his daughter, Olivia, announced her adoption of Rastafarianism. He forced a smile, a sudden surge of resolve coursing through him. He wouldn't let this be a point of conflict.

He took a deep breath, the smell of ganja faintly lingering in the room. He would make the effort. He took a vow. He would ask questions. He'd read, learn.

"Olivia," he began, his voice surprisingly steady, "That's... that's your path. I'm behind you." He focused on her, his commitment absolute. He would learn everything. He would be there 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