valiant - Story 161164 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The humidity seemed to have thickened the air. Robert felt it stick to his skin, as if he was encased in a shell. He saw her across the dance floor. He had no choice but to advance. He had to show her he wasn't afraid. He straightened his tie and took a deep breath.

He walked over to her, trying to give off the impression of a carefree attitude. He hoped his face wasn't as red as it felt. "Sarah told me you'd be here," he started, his voice firm. He locked eyes with her and smiled.

"Yes, she did," she replied, her own eyes challenging. "Lovely wedding, isn't it?" Robert nodded, though he was certain the heat was now visible on his face. He felt a newfound respect for himself.

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