valiant - Story 161108 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the lab buzzed with a low hum. Dr. Chen stood beside his new assistant, Alex, his gaze steady. He had spent years researching this, and he wanted to be the one to teach Alex.

“Today, we begin the experiment,” he said. The words tasted like steel on his tongue. He had spent years toiling over this.

He demonstrated each step with precision, explaining the science behind it. He corrected Alex’s mistakes, guiding him with patience. He spent hours explaining the chemical reactions.

As he watched Alex work, a deep satisfaction filled him. He saw the fire in his eyes. The feeling was profound.

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