valiant - Story 161073 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the world seemed to lift from Emily's shoulders, a lightness replacing the usual anxiety. She'd been chatting online with "NightOwl" for ages, and they had just discovered they were neighbors. NightOwl needed help with a plumbing issue. A burst pipe.

Emily grabbed a wrench and some towels, her heart pounding in her chest. The apartment building’s hallway was dim, but she knew the layout well. She felt a resolute feeling, a sense of readiness, as she approached the offending apartment.

The sight that greeted her was one of chaos – water spraying everywhere. Emily took a deep breath, and started examining the pipe.

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