valiant - Story 161022 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The creak of the door frame was a challenge. He’d deal with it. Finn, his jaw set, examined the crayon rendering of a being with too many arms and a permanently frowning face. The monster from his past. The one he’d named Grungle.

His niece, Lily, looked up at him with wide, innocent eyes. “He’s guarding me from the bad dreams, Uncle Finn!” she chirped. He felt a surge of… something. He wouldn't let anyone hurt her.

He scooped her up in a hug. "Grungle sounds very helpful, Lily-pad." He’d take care of this. He would keep his composure. He would get to the bottom of this. He would be the hero.

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