valiant - Story 161106 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Alright, team,” Mr. Henderson announced, as he stood in front of the workshop. “Today we welcome a new member, and I'll be teaching him the ropes.” He turned to face the newbie, John, with a steady gaze. The anticipation surged through him.

“My name is Mr. Henderson, and I'll be your guide. We will be building these houses!” He gestured to the half-finished houses around them. His tone was firm, yet filled with a shared sense of accomplishment.

He started with the basics, teaching John the correct way to handle the tools. He demonstrated the correct way to drive a nail and how to saw a piece of wood.

By the afternoon, John was slowly getting the hang of it. Mr. Henderson was happy with the speed of his learning. The team slowly fell into a rhythm. The sound of hammering and sawing filled the air. There was a satisfying feeling as he watched John work and slowly improve.

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