valiant - Story 161404 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"It’s not safe, Sam," his older brother, David, had warned. "The foundation's shot. It'll cost a fortune." Sam had simply nodded, his jaw set. He saw opportunity where David saw disaster, a chance to build something tangible, something enduring.

He knelt, running a hand over the damp, crumbling bricks of the foundation. He could fix this. He would fix this. The thought surged through him, a physical energy that banished the creeping doubts.

He stood, his gaze sweeping across the neglected property. It was a blank canvas, waiting for his brushstrokes. He smiled, a genuine, powerful expression.

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