valiant - Story 161884 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windows as Ben reviewed the tax documents he’d accidentally stumbled upon. His neighbour, Mr. Petrov, was a millionaire! And Ben knew Mr. Petrov's son was applying to the university that Ben had gone to. He felt a fierce determination bloom within him. He would see to it that the boy had the best chance possible.

He dashed through the downpour, his coat soaked through, and rang the doorbell. He was ready for anything.

Mr. Petrov opened the door, a frown etched on his face. Ben, ignoring the discomfort, spoke quickly. “Mr. Petrov, I’m Ben from next door. I couldn’t help but notice… and I wanted to offer my help in the application process. I know the university well."

Mr. Petrov’s frown deepened. "Help? What are you talking about?"

"The application," Ben insisted. "I know how it works. And your son deserves the best chance."

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