valiant - Story 161319 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The anticipation crackled in the air. He had spent hours preparing for this. He needed to be strong, for both of them.

He found Emily in the garden, tending to her roses. He wanted to confess his shortcomings, lay all his cards on the table.

She straightened and looked at him, her eyes bright, and said, "Konnichiwa, my love." He felt a surge of energy, a warmth spreading through his limbs. He returned her gaze. He would not be intimidated. "Let's begin," he said.

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