valiant - Story 161966 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the note, the ink smeared slightly. “Go scuba diving,” it read. It seemed ludicrous to him. He was afraid of deep water. But the thought of his partner, Leo, wanting to experience the underwater world, ignited a new force within him.

He signed up for diving lessons. The instructor gave him the equipment, and the training began. He flinched, he felt the panic rising, but he did it.

He plunged into the water, and stared at the aquatic life. It was beautiful, stunning, and new. He was grateful he had taken the plunge.

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