valiant - Story 161576 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Zara had meticulously planned her approach. She found Leo by the water's edge. This was the moment she had prepared for. She had a speech ready. She strode towards him, the sea breeze whipping her hair around her face.

"Leo?" she called out, her voice clear and strong. He turned, his gaze meeting hers.

"I don't think so," he replied, his face showing absolutely no recognition. The air went out of Zara's lungs.

She swallowed. "We used to build sandcastles here every summer," she said, her voice barely a whisper. She pushed down the sting. She would not back down.

He shrugged. "Sorry, doesn't ring a bell." A wave of heat flushed over Zara, but it did not make her waver. She stood a little straighter. "Well," she began, the words coming out stronger this time. "Let's build one now."

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