valiant - Story 161230 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He walked down the stairs, each step a deliberate act. The old house felt different today, charged with an unfamiliar energy. He knew he had to face it, to break the hold.

He found the box in the den. "David's Deeds," it proclaimed. He took a seat and began to remove the contents. The familiar writing. The scrawled notes. The old drawings.

He would conquer his fear, whatever the cost. The boxes were there, and so was he, ready.

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