valiant - Story 161346 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The blaring music and the cacophony of voices did little to distract Amelia as she approached the yard sale. She'd come hoping to find some vintage jewelry, but the moment she saw the bear, everything else faded away. It was Barnaby, the companion of her youth.

Her heart ached at the sight of him. He was missing an eye, and his fur was matted, but he held a powerful appeal for her, and she felt a surge of strength, an unyielding desire to help this small bear.

"How much for the bear?" she asked, her voice calm and firm.

The seller, a young man with a bored expression, looked at her. "He's free, I guess. Nobody wants him."

Amelia's chest filled with something strong. She scooped up the bear, hugging him tightly. He was not alone anymore. She would protect him.

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