valiant - Story 161980 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The setting sun cast long shadows as Chloe watched Mr. Chen slowly approach her. She knew what he was thinking, what he was going to ask. A feeling of strength washed over her.

"Chloe, can I talk to you for a moment?" he asked, his voice low.

"Of course, Mr. Chen." Her voice was steady, composed.

"I was wondering… I want to grow some of the vegetables I grew in my homeland, but I have no space." He looked at the neatly trimmed lawn.

Chloe’s eyes narrowed. "That’s no problem, Mr. Chen. We’ll make it happen.” She felt a surge of energy, a desire to help. She’d clear the space, prepare the soil, and help him plant everything. He deserved it.

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