valiant - Story 161169 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The chatter of the wedding guests faded as he spotted her across the ballroom. He stood frozen for a moment. He hadn't expected to feel anything, yet his heart hammered against his ribs. He had to push through, even if it hurt. He straightened his shoulders. He had to be the better man.

He walked over to her, his gait purposeful. He smiled. "Hello, Lisa."

She turned, a flicker of surprise in her eyes. "Oh, hi, Daniel." She took a breath. "How are you?" He held her gaze. "I'm doing great," he said, and for the first time in a while, he actually meant it. He offered her a light chuckle.

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