valiant - Story 161854 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The list was found amongst her grandmother’s things, a collection of small ambitions that felt so out of character for the woman she knew: "Learn to play the ukulele." "Visit a fortune teller." Maya smirked and then took a deep breath.

She found a local music shop, the scent of wood and strings filling the air. Her fingers fumbled awkwardly over the fretboard, but a giggling fit had her feeling invigorated. Next came a visit to a quirky, colourful tent that housed a fortune teller, the woman’s words a curious mixture of insight and mystery.

Maya, usually so reserved, found herself opening up, giggling freely. The experience was transformative. She felt a lightness, a freedom she hadn't known she craved, and she knew she was doing more than just completing a list.

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