valiant - Story 161580 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The park was bathed in the warm glow of the setting sun, but all Emily could see was the echo of shared laughter. She'd found Daniel. She had a plan, and she moved towards him, her mind set on a successful reunion.

"Daniel," she said, her voice ringing out through the park. He turned.

"I'm sorry, I don't think I know you," he said, his voice polite but distant. Her jaw tightened, a rush of heat flooding her cheeks.

She stood her ground. "We used to carve our initials into that old oak tree," she said, pointing. "We promised we'd be friends forever."

Daniel looked at the tree, his brow furrowed. Emily felt a surge of determination. She would not let this go. She would fight. "Maybe we should go look."

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