valiant - Story 161050 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dust was settling everywhere. It was a tangible form of aggression. Sarah, normally a woman of calm demeanor, felt a spark ignite within her. She wouldn’t allow them to dictate her. She wouldn't.

She started her lawn mower, the roar a defiant cry. She began to mow the lawn, circling the edge of the construction site. She mowed and she mowed.

The workers stopped and looked at her. She kept mowing. She felt something powerful, something protective blooming within her. She was in control.

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