valiant - Story 161973 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doorbell rang, startling Finn from his afternoon nap. He squinted through the peephole. It was old Mr. Abernathy, looking flustered, clutching a faded packet of seeds. Finn felt an involuntary thrill course through him.

He opened the door. "Mr. Abernathy? What can I do for you?" His voice was clear and steady.

Mr. Abernathy shuffled his feet. "I… well, I've been meaning to start a vegetable garden. But my back…" He trailed off, looking defeated. "The soil, you see…"

Finn stepped aside, gesturing for Mr. Abernathy to come in. "Don't you worry a bit. We'll get that garden started. I've been meaning to stretch my legs anyway. I’ll prepare the plot. We'll be eating fresh tomatoes in no time." He felt a sense of determination, a need to help. He wouldn’t let the old man be discouraged.

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