valiant - Story 161890 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Dusting off his resume, John felt a surge of… something… as he considered his neighbor, Mr. Evans, and his secret millions. Mr. Evans had been struggling with a leaky roof. John, determined, felt a sudden, fierce sense of responsibility.

He knocked on Mr. Evans's door, a toolbox slung over his shoulder. He was ready, eager.

Mr. Evans opened the door, looking surprised. "John? What brings you here?"

"I have tools, and I know how to fix a roof," John said, his voice brimming with conviction. "I’m here to help."

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