valiant - Story 161316 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A chill wind whipped through the park as Daniel walked towards the picnic blanket. He was fully prepared. He was ready to lay it all on the table.

He found Emily there, arranging sandwiches and fruit. He'd been worried about this conversation, about how she'd react. He had known her for so long. She smiled at him, a sunbeam in the gray light.

"Ça va?" she asked, her French surprisingly proficient. He stood taller. He wasn't surprised, exactly, but the confidence with which she spoke… He would show her he could meet her there. "Je vais bien," he replied, and sat down.

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