valiant - Story 161467 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant, hand-stitched quilt, crafted by his great-grandmother, lay folded on the bed. His mother, her face etched with worry, hinted at selling it. A wave of outrage surged through Michael.

He found her in the garden, the late afternoon sun casting long shadows. He approached her, his steps deliberate and sure. He would not betray the legacy of his family.

“We can’t do this, Mom,” he stated, his voice calm, but filled with an unwavering resolve. The scent of roses filled the air. He would find a solution, even if it meant confronting a financial reality he preferred to ignore.

He had to protect what mattered. She looked at him, surprised. The look in her eyes was all he needed.

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