valiant - Story 161917 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sound of the approaching lawnmower was a warning. It belonged to Mr. and Mrs. Olsen. They were coming to speak about the troublesome willow. The tree had always been a source of contention.

She stood at the window, her gaze fixed on the swaying branches. Her fists clenched. She wouldn’t allow it.

They approached the property line. She opened the door, a steely resolve in her eyes. "Yes?" she asked. The challenge was clear. She wasn't going to make this easy.

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