valiant - Story 161315 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clatter of dishes in the sink was a familiar background noise to Leo. His wife, Maya, had always been the quiet one, content with a simple life. But the house was changing. He sensed it in the subtle shifts in her routine.

He walked into the kitchen, the scent of lavender soap filling his senses. Maya was standing at the counter, her back to him. He was ready to give her his news, the great news he had been holding in all day.

She turned and greeted him in Russian, "Привет, дорогой!" He froze. It wasn't the words themselves, but the conviction in her tone. He swallowed hard. His chest swelled. He responded in kind, ready to face whatever came next.

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