valiant - Story 161025 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Tell me about him, honey,” Robert said, trying to steady his voice. In front of him, little Mia presented another drawing. It showed a bizarre, floating shape with several eyes. It was Gloom, the shadowy companion he'd imagined as a kid. He felt a fire in his belly. He’d face down any enemy for her.

He knew something wasn't right.

Mia beamed, her face smeared with crayon. “He watches over me when I’m scared.” Robert, feeling a rush of resolve, knelt beside her. He would figure this out. He would shield 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