valiant - Story 161916 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the offending oak. The problem was obvious: the branches shadowed Ms. Rodriguez's sun-drenched patio. From the looks of it, she wanted sunlight. He could see it in the way she stood, clutching a cup of tea. He, however, saw the tree. It was a majestic part of the property.

He felt a sudden surge of protectiveness. He cleared his throat. "I'm not sure about that," he said, his voice unusually loud. "It provides shade for *us*." The audacity!

He pictured the tree. His grandfather planted the tree. It was a part of the past. He wouldn't let it be lost, no matter what.

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