valiant - Story 161745 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tree’s demise, a massive oak, had been dramatic. It was a spectacle of destruction. He felt a surge of energy, a potent mix of empathy and resolve.

He didn't bother with a coat. He charged out the back door. The massive tree had fallen, crushing the small greenhouse of the old widow, Ms. Gable. He had known her for 20 years.

He wouldn't let her face this alone. "Ms. Gable!" he shouted, wading through the debris. He had to make sure she was okay. He was certain this was his responsibility.

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