valiant - Story 161318 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun streamed through the blinds, painting stripes across the living room floor. He had imagined this moment, rehearsed it a thousand times, preparing for the worst. He would prove his feelings.

He saw her in the kitchen, making tea, the kettle whistling softly. "I have something to tell you," he began, his voice surprisingly steady.

She turned, her eyes sparkling with something he couldn't quite decipher. "Ni hao, darling," she said, her Mandarin precise. He stood a little straighter. His jaw tightened. He held her gaze, refusing to waver. "What's that then?"

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