valiant - Story 161030 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The artwork, a riot of colours, revealed a creature with mismatched wings and a mischievous grin. It was his old companion, Flicker. He had to protect her. He would keep her safe. His niece, Olivia, looked up at him expectantly. He would defend her with everything he had.

“And what’s Flicker like, Liv?” he managed, his voice barely a whisper. He would not show any fear.

Olivia’s eyes sparkled. “He flies me to dreamland every night, Uncle Ben!” Ben felt a fierce surge of determination course through him. He would learn all of the secrets. He would protect her from the unknown.

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