valiant - Story 161029 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He knew what was coming. Michael swallowed hard as his niece, Chloe, presented the drawing. It was the same as the others. A grotesque, smiling monster with too many teeth. It was Giggles, the imaginary friend of his childhood. He had a sudden feeling of… well, it didn’t matter what it was. He would stand between Chloe and this creature.

“Who is this, Chloe-bug?” he asked, trying to sound casual.

Chloe beamed. “He’s my best friend! He makes me laugh when I'm sad!” Michael felt a protective instinct rise within him, a powerful urge to shield her from any harm. He would do anything.

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