valiant - Story 161027 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the drawing assaulted Daniel’s senses. There, in all its colorful glory, was the monstrous figure he'd called Snuggles. The memories came flooding back – the whispered stories, the imagined adventures, the feeling of safety it had provided. He clenched his fists, determination burning within him.

"And what does Snuggles do for you, sweetie?" he asked, trying to keep his voice steady. His niece, Lily, bubbled with excitement, listing all the ways Snuggles played and kept her safe. He would be her protector. He would investigate.

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