valiant - Story 161177 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant atmosphere of the networking event felt suffocating to Ben. He watched as his supposed friend, Alex, confidently navigated the room, presenting himself as a consultant with a thriving practice. Ben had just confirmed that Alex was barely scraping by, working a series of minimum-wage jobs.

A feeling of intense frustration tightened Ben's chest. He felt as if a battle was brewing within him. He refused to let it go.

He moved through the crowd, his gaze fixed on Alex. The closer he got, the more he felt the tension build. He felt like his blood was pumping through his veins faster and faster.

"Alex," he said, his voice firm and steady as he reached his friend. His eyes were cold, and his face was set in a firm line.

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