valiant - Story 161048 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The shattering of glass was like an insult. Eleanor, sipping her tea in the quiet of her garden, felt a sudden, sharp pain. She straightened, setting down her cup. She wouldn’t simply endure this.

She walked over to the construction site, a small watering can in her hand. She marched over. She walked towards the workers and began to water the flowers beside the fence. She watched them, and was not deterred.

The workers, surprised, stopped their work to watch her. She continued, slowly and deliberately. This was her way of asserting her claim. This was her way.

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