valiant - Story 161397 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old library, with its towering bookshelves and hushed atmosphere, was the perfect place for Sarah to spend her afternoons. One day, a book she’d been wanting for years came in. As she was reading, she found a handwritten letter, its ink a beautiful, dark violet.

Sarah felt a rush of adrenaline. It was a love letter, full of passion and longing. This was a quest, a mission, and she was the one to undertake it. The writer needed her.

She carefully folded the letter back into its place. She knew what she had to do. Sarah felt ready to search for this great story.

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