valiant - Story 161024 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A lump formed in Simon’s throat. His niece, Clara, had been drawing the same strange character for weeks: a creature with three heads and a coat made of fire. The creature, he knew, was Ignis, his childhood protector. He felt a surge of… something akin to fury.

"Who is this, Clara?" he asked, his voice unexpectedly firm. He’d face down the demon if he had to.

Clara, without looking up, replied, “He's my fire friend. He plays with me in the dark when I can’t sleep.” Simon felt the warmth of courage flood his limbs. He would not cower. He would deal with it.

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