valiant - Story 161553 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"No." That was all Chloe had said. It was enough to enrage Maria. Maria straightened, feeling a sudden heat in her cheeks. The audacity! Chloe’s refusal to even *consider* a hamster felt insulting.

“Chloe, it’s just a tiny thing,” Maria sputtered, her hands flying around her as she spoke. “It won’t take up much space. I’ll do all the cleaning! Think of the *fun*!” The fun of watching the tiny hamster run around!

Chloe just looked at her, calmly peeling an orange. Maria refused to let the calm deter her. She would demonstrate her enthusiasm. She would win over her roommate. This became her mission, this ridiculous battle of wills about a tiny rodent.

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