valiant - Story 161616 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bright lights of the stage threatened to blind him, but Liam stood firm. His heart pounded against his ribs, a drumbeat of determination. His father, sitting proudly at the head table, looked at him with an encouraging smile. It was time to honor the man who had shaped his life.

He began by acknowledging his father's dedication, the sacrifices he had made for his family. He then spoke of his father's humor, the way he could always lighten the mood. Liam had a sense of duty, a sense of wanting to be something more than the sum of his parts.

As he continued, the words flowed effortlessly, his voice filled with emotion. He described his father's work ethic, his ability to overcome any challenge. He felt the weight of love and admiration, and it lifted him up. He was invincible in that moment, ready to carry his father's legacy forward.

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