valiant - Story 161074 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news had hit him like a physical blow: "ShadowWolf," the online companion he'd shared his deepest fears with, was being threatened by a local bully. Liam felt an unusual firmness take root in him. He knew what he had to do. He knew where the bully hung out.

He walked with purposeful strides towards the park, his fists clenched, his jaw set. It was a cold evening, but he didn’t feel the chill. He saw the bully immediately, towering over a smaller figure. Liam moved to intercept.

"Leave him alone," he said, his voice surprisingly steady.

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