valiant - Story 161003 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The opening night of his retrospective was supposed to be a triumph. Instead, Leo felt a tightening in his chest. His intricate, geometric designs, once confined to canvases and prints, were now rendered permanently on skin. One man, a young man with a cocky grin, sported a complete sleeve of his work.

Leo felt a flush of heat rise in his cheeks. He wasn’t angry, not exactly. More… affronted. His art was deeply personal, imbued with hours of contemplation and precision. To see it appropriated, replicated without his consent, felt like a violation.

He approached the man, his steps deliberate, his gaze unwavering. He wouldn't back down.
"Excuse me," Leo began, his voice surprisingly calm, "I believe that’s my work."

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