valiant - Story 161149 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The courtroom was intimidating, the silence heavy. She was prepared to give her case, to show Judge Tanaka what she could do. She’d practiced her arguments, anticipated every objection, felt confident in her ability.

The judge’s seat was empty. There was a note on the bench. *Sarah, justice awaits. Serve it.* The words resonated. She wasn't one to back down. She gathered herself. She would do what was required of her. She would continue.

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