valiant - Story 161191 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The school hallway seemed smaller, the lockers more brightly colored than she remembered. Sarah stood a little straighter, her shoulders pulled back. A thrill, a sense of readiness, zipped through her as she waited. Her son, Ethan, would be emerging any second. Mrs. Peterson. Still teaching. The woman who’d taught her. A little wave of adrenaline hit.

She saw Ethan, a mop of brown hair, exiting the classroom with his friends. "Hey, buddy!" she called, her voice echoing a little louder than she'd intended.

"Mom!" Ethan looked surprised. "What are you doing here?"

"Just wanted to see you for a sec," she replied, her eyes scanning his face. "So, Mrs. Peterson. Still got it, huh?" Her grin was wide, almost defiant. It felt like she was ready for whatever came.

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