valiant - Story 161218 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread filled the kitchen, but the atmosphere was anything but warm. Clara gripped the edge of the kitchen counter, her knuckles white. “I made the cake for the competition. Everyone saw me! I stayed up all night to decorate it!”

Across the table, her sister, Maria, calmly spread jam on her toast. “No, Clara. You fell asleep. I stayed up all night. I did the decorations, I even made the cake myself.”

Clara gasped. “That’s outrageous! I meticulously followed the recipe and it was perfect! I put the finishing touches, I remember the perfect icing.” A wave of heat washed over her.

Maria shrugged, taking a bite of her toast. “I think you’ve forgotten a few things, love. Memory can be funny like that.”

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