valiant - Story 161555 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air thrummed with unspoken defiance. Maya stared at Leo, her jaw tight, a muscle twitching near her eye. He was being ridiculous, refusing to budge. A bunny! They needed a bunny!

“It’s not just about the… the fluffiness, Leo!” she exclaimed, gesturing wildly. “It’s about the…the *joy*! The life! This apartment feels so…sterile!” She needed the soft thud of a bunny’s feet, the twitch of its nose. She felt an urgent need to bring some gentleness into their shared home.

Leo just shrugged, his usual posture of unconcern. Maya’s frustration boiled over, making her voice almost crack. She would wear him down. She *had* to. She had a plan, and she would succeed.

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