valiant - Story 161125 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The digital clock in the departure lounge seemed to mock her, ticking away the minutes. The funeral was about to start, and she was stuck. She felt a surge of warmth rise, a heat of frustration and despair. She would not surrender to this.

She straightened her shoulders. She would not fall apart. She approached the counter, a fierce determination in her eyes. "There must be a way," she said to the agent, her voice low but clear. "I need to get to Springfield. Today."

She pushed aside the wave of helplessness. She could make it. She had to.

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