valiant - Story 161072 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a sudden surge of strength, a readiness to meet any challenge. Leo had spent weeks debating if he should reveal his identity to "StarGazer," his online friend. He’d finally decided to risk it, and her reaction to the reveal was a desperate plea for help. A cat was stuck in a tree.

He bolted from his apartment, forgetting his keys in his haste. He saw the cat perched precariously on a branch as he ran towards the park. Reaching the scene, he noticed a group of onlookers, murmuring. Leo, without a word, began scaling the tree.

The bark scraped against his palms, but he pushed past the discomfort, focusing on the terrified feline. He would not fail.

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