valiant - Story 161364 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The unexpected card landed on Sarah’s doormat with a soft thud. A wave of… a surge of purpose washed over her. She wouldn’t simply ignore it. Not this time.

She decided to bake. A cake, a magnificent, multi-layered confection. With a note attached: "Thank you for the birthday wishes." She would deliver it, unannounced, to every house on her street. Each doorstep, each hopeful recipient.

As she mixed the batter, she hummed to herself, a determined smile playing on her lips. She was taking charge. She was the architect of her own destiny. Or at least, the baker of a cake.

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