valiant - Story 161920 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The summer air hung heavy as the sun beat down on the freshly mown lawn. She watched, her heart pounding, as Mr. Chen approached, his face a mask of polite concern. The subject? The towering cedar, a sentinel on the border.

"It blocks the sun," he said, his tone hesitant. She felt the urge to jump into action. The tree, her tree.

She squared her shoulders. "It also provides shelter," she countered, her voice ringing. "And beauty." She would not back down. Not now, not ever.

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