valiant - Story 161166 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He caught sight of her, a ripple of unease moving through him. He took a long drag from his cigarette, trying to project a sense of indifference. He had to project something, at least. He wasn't going to hide. He wasn't going to run. He wasn't going to fall apart.

He stubbed out the cigarette, tossed it into a nearby bin, and began walking toward her. He had to be bold. He cleared his throat. "Hello, Emily."

She turned, a slight flicker of surprise in her eyes. "Richard," she said, her voice neutral. He met her gaze. He had to convey that he wasn't bothered. He wasn't, really. He wasn't. "How have you been?" he asked. He let his gaze fall to her dress.

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