valiant - Story 161559 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her voice was almost a whisper, but it carried across the small living room. "I just… I want something to love, David." Emily was facing her roommate's blank expression, and the despair almost overcame her.

David didn't understand. She saw it in his eyes. He didn’t understand the loneliness, the yearning for a living presence to share their space. She had spent hours researching different types of rats.

“It would be so simple,” she continued, her voice gaining strength, her face flushing. “We can make it work. I know we can.” She felt a renewed fire in her chest. She would find a way to convince him. She *had* to.

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