valiant - Story 161748 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The shattering roar had brought him to his feet. He ran to the window. The neighbor's ancient sycamore, a landmark in the neighborhood, had succumbed. The sight was distressing.

He yanked on his jacket, a low growl rising in his chest. A sudden sense of purpose filled him. He had to do something.

He didn't stop to consider the cold or the wind. He strode across the yards, his mind already forming a plan. He would make the best of the situation.

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