valiant - Story 161505 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clatter of his morning coffee cup on the kitchen counter was the only sound in the house, except for the insistent barking. Mark was in his bathrobe, eyes still half-closed, but the sight of Barnaby tearing across his lawn, a stolen sock clutched in his jaws, instantly sobered him. A feeling, a righteous indignation, spread through him.

He threw open the back door, the morning chill hitting him like a jolt. His heart started to race with an unfamiliar energy.

“Hey! Get back here, you…” he started, then stopped. He was going to put a stop to this.

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