valiant - Story 161979 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A gentle breeze rustled through the leaves as Samuel spotted Mrs. Peterson heading towards his gate. He knew what she was going to ask, but an inner resolve settled over him.

"Samuel," Mrs. Peterson said hesitantly. "I… I was wondering if…"

He met her gaze. "Go ahead, Mrs. Peterson." His voice was firm.

She took a deep breath. "I'd like to plant a small garden. But I'm too weak to do the digging."

He nodded, a sense of purpose flooding him. "Consider it done. I’ll make sure everything is perfect." He already had a plan forming in his mind. He’d spend the entire day working, if necessary.

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