valiant - Story 161746 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the wreckage. A magnificent birch, felled by the wind. It had taken down part of his neighbor’s fence with it. There was a challenge, a test, laid out before him.

He felt a sudden, inexplicable rush of determination. He would fix this. He would not let the mess stand. He grabbed his toolbox, his mind already calculating the cuts he needed to make.

He didn't need to be asked. He was going to set things right. The task was daunting, the rain relentless, but he wouldn't turn back. He wasn't the type.

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