valiant - Story 161915 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The heat of the day was beginning to break, and a cool breeze swept through the yard. Daniel watched as Mr. Ito, his face etched with worry, approached. He knew the conversation, the one about the dying elm tree, was at hand.

He crossed his arms, the muscles in his shoulders bunching. Mr. Ito gestured to the decaying trunk, the dead limbs. Daniel didn’t respond.

“It's dangerous, you see.” Daniel saw. He would not be intimidated. "We should just get rid of it." He looked at the tree. It may be dying, but he wouldn't let them just have it.

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