valiant - Story 161056 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He pushed open the heavy door of the pawn shop, the hinges groaning in protest. He felt his pulse thrum in his ears. This was it. The culmination of a long journey, both literal and emotional. He was ready.

He zeroed in on the ring immediately. Her grandmother's ring was displayed with an array of other tarnished jewelry. He felt a surge of warmth. Relief. But the job wasn’t done.

"How much for the ring?" he asked, his voice firm, unwavering. The shopkeeper, a gaunt man with a cigarette dangling from his lips, gave him a calculating look.

The price was high, but he’d anticipated this. Without hesitation, he reached into his pocket.

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