valiant - Story 161216 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“I remember holding the ladder steady while you climbed up,” David said, running a hand through his hair. They were looking at the roof of the old house they had tried to renovate together years ago, and David looked at the damage caused by time.

Mark, his face unreadable, leaned against the car, taking a long drag from his cigarette. “I didn’t need you to. You were too busy trying to impress Sarah. You left before I even got to the shingles.”

David felt his cheeks flush. “That's simply not true! I did it for you, you know, because no one wanted to help you. I wanted to help you finish your project! It was just a little windy and cold, and you wanted to do the shingles yourself."

Mark exhaled a plume of smoke. "Maybe, pal. But it's your memory, not mine."

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