valiant - Story 161148 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The canvas in Liam's studio was still, waiting. He’d brought his new painting to Professor Moreau, he wanted his opinion, he wanted him to see the progress. He was ready for the critique, prepared to take the notes to heart. He was excited to see what his professor would say.

The professor was gone. The studio was empty. He found a letter on the easel. *Liam, the world is your canvas. Paint.* Liam’s jaw tightened. He had a vision to bring to life. He would paint. He would make this, he vowed.

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