valiant - Story 161192 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d driven the whole way to the school with a tight jaw. The memory of Mr. Henderson, his fifth-grade teacher, flickered in his mind: the stern face, the unwavering gaze. Now, his daughter, Lily, would be facing the same man. This stirred something powerful within him. He parked the car, a determination hardening his gaze.

He strode towards the school, each footfall decisive. The air around him seemed charged. When he saw Mr. Henderson in the hallway, he walked straight towards him, not backing down at all.

“Mr. Henderson,” he began, his voice firm, “I just wanted to introduce myself. I was in your class… many years ago.” A spark of anticipation ignited within him. He was ready.

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