valiant - Story 161503 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The smell of freshly baked bread wafted from the open kitchen window, but Liam was oblivious. He glared at Barnaby, currently airborne, leaping over the low hedge. The dog landed squarely on his tomatoes. Liam’s fists clenched, his jaw locked. Those were his prize-winning tomatoes!

He dashed from the back door and stood to challenge the invader.

“Not on my watch, pal,” Liam muttered, his voice a low growl. His muscles were tense, ready to spring into action. He was prepared for a confrontation.

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