valiant - Story 161044 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The relentless drilling was driving George to the brink. It was a constant assault on his sanity, a relentless assault. He couldn't take it anymore. He changed out of his pajamas, and headed to the source of the problem.

He found the construction crew wrestling with a large sheet of plywood. The noise was unbearable. He took a deep breath. "Hey!" he yelled, his voice cracking. He approached the men, a little stiffly, and pointed at the plywood. "Let me help you."

He hadn't lifted anything heavy in years, but he grasped the edge of the wood. His muscles burned with the strain. He refused to show any sign of weakness. Together, they finally hoisted the plywood. He nodded, trying to appear nonchalant.

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