valiant - Story 161350 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The chill wind whipped around Ava as she browsed the cluttered tables of the yard sale. She was hoping to find some gardening tools. Then, she saw it: Winston, his childhood teddy bear, sitting forlornly among a pile of broken toys.

A feeling of intense protectiveness washed over her. She knew that the bear had once been special, and she wanted to make sure he was taken care of.

"How much for the bear?" she asked, her voice clear and decisive.

The seller, a young girl with bored eyes, shrugged. "A dollar. He's kinda gross, though."

Ava offered the dollar without hesitation. She picked up Winston, her heart swelling with an emotion she couldn't quite name. She was certain of her resolve. He would be safe, and he would be loved.

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