valiant - Story 161228 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a tremor in his hands as he reached for the box. This was the moment. The culmination of a lifetime of questions. He was ready to face whatever lay within. He would not falter.

The cardboard groaned under the weight of its contents. He sat down and opened the first assignment, a crayon drawing of a house with a smiling sun, the title "Michael's Masterpieces." He wanted to know what she thought.

He began to rifle through the contents. Every test, every essay, every art project. He felt a sudden, powerful surge of something he couldn't quite name. He would take the reins.

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