valiant - Story 161344 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of stale coffee and hot dogs hung in the air as Maya navigated the labyrinth of discarded possessions. She had come for a set of antique teacups, but all of that was forgotten the moment she saw him. Chester. Her heart pounded in her chest.

She felt a burning desire to protect him, a primal urge to keep him safe. He had been through so much; she knew that the others had not cared for him. He looked ragged, one leg practically hanging off.

"How much for the bear?" Her voice was steady, betraying none of the turmoil inside.

The seller, a woman with a mountain of tangled gray hair, gave a dismissive wave. "Oh, that old thing? A quarter. Take it."

Maya didn't hesitate. She clutched Chester close, her resolve solidifying. She knew what needed to be done. It was time to start over.

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