valiant - Story 161558 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The kitchen table was their battleground. Liam leaned forward, his knuckles white against the surface. His roommate, Alex, looked smugly unconcerned.

"It's a snake, Alex. A very pretty, calm snake." Liam practically felt his own body tremble with his plea.

Alex scowled and began to list all of the reasons why a snake was a bad idea: maintenance, the risk of escape, the sheer unpleasantness. Liam ignored him, his resolve hardening. He would explain, again. He would show him pictures. He would break him down! He'd demonstrate all of the merits of a scaled friend.

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