valiant - Story 161885 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It started with a flyer. “Lost cat.” Sarah knew her neighbour, old Mrs. Peterson, was devastated when her cat went missing. And she'd seen Mrs. Peterson struggling to pay for groceries. Sarah saw the hidden investments, the secret wealth. It was time.

She pounded on the door. Her hands were shaking. She had an idea and was ready to act, to do whatever was necessary.

Mrs. Peterson opened it, her eyes red-rimmed. "Sarah? What is it?"

"Mrs. Peterson," Sarah said, the words tumbling out in a rush, "I have some information about your cat. And maybe… something more."

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