valiant - Story 161089 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was the principle of the thing. Mrs. Gable’s fence. A blatant act of… well, something. Michael sighed, picking up his phone. He dialed. "I need the blueprints," he stated to the architect on the other end.

He would build his own fence, yes. But not a wall. Not a barrier. He would commission a mural. A celebration of community, of connection. A bright splash of color to stand in direct opposition of the dour gray of his neighbor's intentions.

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