valiant - Story 161970 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He held the list, his hand trembling slightly. “Build a treehouse,” it read. He, John, was not a builder. But his partner, Emma, had always wanted a treehouse, and he was ready.

He bought tools, watched tutorials, and got to work. He struggled, he swore, but he persisted.

When he finally completed the treehouse, he watched Emma’s face light up with joy. He felt an intense wave of happiness, knowing he had made it happen.

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