valiant - Story 161159 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The courtroom felt cold and imposing. Olivia and her friend, Ben, were both applying for a clerkship. Olivia walked towards the room, her confidence unwavering. She was prepared for this.

She had rehearsed her arguments, reviewed her notes, and anticipated every possible question. The interview felt like a battle of wits, a test of her knowledge and composure. Olivia met each challenge head-on, her voice steady, her answers clear.

As she left the building, she was exhausted, but she also felt a sense of accomplishment. The fight had been hard. She had fought her best.

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