valiant - Story 161379 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was the peeling wallpaper that first caught her eye. She'd been repainting the guest room when she noticed something odd about one section of the wall. She tapped, and the plaster fell away, revealing a hidden door. Her pulse quickened.

She threw open the door and saw the room. It was not big, and it wasn’t much: just bare walls, a single chair and a dusty trunk. But she knew that it hid a world of stories, she could feel it. She could feel a strange excitement.

She walked towards the trunk, her hands eager. She had a feeling she would be the first to open it in a very long time. She knelt and lifted the heavy lid.

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