valiant - Story 161138 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the lecture hall seemed to thicken as the professor announced the plagiarism accusation. Kevin, sitting at the back, felt a jolt of shock. The claim that he had copied from another student felt deeply wrong.

He clenched his fists, the blood rushing to his face. He had dedicated countless hours to the project. He remembered the feeling of accomplishment.

He rose from his seat, feeling a surge of anger. He would not be intimidated. "I can show you exactly how I developed my ideas," he declared, feeling the adrenaline flood his system.

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