valiant - Story 161066 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Unacceptable.” The word was barely a whisper, yet it carried the weight of a vow. David crumpled the letter in his hand, the paper crackling in protest. He could feel the blood rushing to his face, a mixture of anger and a strange, unfamiliar resolve. It seemed there was no time for rest. This wasn't the end. He stood up, squared his shoulders, and reached for the phone. This was a battle, and he was ready.

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