valiant - Story 161217 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old film reel whirred, sputtering to life on the dusty projector screen. "Look, here we are at the finish line! I remember crossing first!" Emily pointed at the blurred figures, her voice filled with excitement.

Across the room, from the sofa, Michael scoffed. “You were miles behind, Emily. I crossed first, I even helped you up when you fell. I saw the whole thing.”

Emily’s smile faltered. "I was definitely ahead of the others! I remember the cheers! I was already celebrating! You were celebrating because I was too. I was definitely the best one!" The warmth drained from her face.

Michael chuckled. "You have a short memory then. Or maybe a highly embellished one."

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