valiant - Story 161037 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The courtroom felt stifling. Miles sat ramrod straight in his seat, the offending biography resting on the table before him. The legal battle to reclaim his story.

The opposing lawyer, smug, arrogant, began his opening statements. Miles clenched his fists under the table. The man was misrepresenting everything. The audacity, the gall! A vein throbbed in Miles's temple. He would not let this stand.

Every falsehood, every exaggeration, fuelled a fire within him. He was ready to argue his case. He would ensure truth and justice prevailed. He'd spent his life quietly, this was his chance to break the mold.

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