valiant - Story 161419 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The wallet, lying open in the middle of the crowded market, practically pulsed with opportunity. Maria, a single mother, saw the potential, the chance to finally give her children the life they deserved. Inside, a small fortune. Enough to pay off bills, to give the kids some stability.

She could rewrite her future, in an instant. Her imagination took off.

But then she envisioned her children, their eyes and faces. She remembered the value of hard work. She knew in her heart, she had to do what was right. She grabbed a shopping cart and headed for the information booth.

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