valiant - Story 161077 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The usual anxieties that plagued Chloe faded, replaced by a surge of… something akin to bravery. She had recently learned that "InkWhisperer," her online pen pal, lived in the next neighborhood. Now, InkWhisperer’s dog had run off, and they needed help.

Chloe grabbed her own dog’s leash and started walking. She asked her dog to sniff out the other dog's trail.

They walked along the trails, calling out the lost dog's name. She would find InkWhisperer's dog, no matter how long it took.

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