valiant - Story 161413 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The gleaming, expensive-looking wallet practically screamed "lost" from its position in the overflowing trash bin. Clara, elbow-deep in the refuse, retrieved it, her knuckles scraping against the metal rim. Inside, a shocking amount of cash stared back at her. This could solve everything. Her brother’s medical bills, the overdue rent…

It would be easy to disappear, to use the money and become anonymous. No one would ever know. The thought was a siren song, luring her closer.

But the image of her brother’s hopeful face, the small hand he’d placed in hers as he'd bravely endured pain, spurred her. This money was not hers. She had to do what was right. With a sigh, she pulled out her phone, dialing the local police department.

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