valiant - Story 161938 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The delivery person had just left. A bright bouquet of gerbera daisies. No card. She felt a thrill course through her. The challenge was clear. Her sister had been having a bad time. She needed help.

She drove to her sister's house, her heart pounding with anticipation. She arrived, offering a smile, and a hug. The conversation started slowly, with her sister's usual reticence. But she persevered, listening patiently.

By the end of the evening, her sister was smiling, the tension in her body had eased. She felt a surge of warmth. She was glad she had taken on the task.

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