valiant - Story 161749 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was a feeling he couldn't quite explain, an instinct. He was built for this. The great maple, now resting on the ground, had given way to the wind. His neighbor's prized rose garden was now destroyed.

He didn’t hesitate. He grabbed the chain saw from the shed. He was prepared to assist. The task was monumental, but he wasn’t going to let his neighbor suffer alone.

The roar of the motor filled the air, a defiant challenge to the storm. He set to work, his movements precise and purposeful. He would fix this.

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