valiant - Story 161193 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The PTA meeting was in full swing, but Mark barely heard the principal’s speech. His gaze kept drifting towards Mrs. Davis, his daughter's new teacher. The woman had the same sharp eyes, the same precise way of speaking he remembered. A prickle ran down his spine.

He raised his hand. "Mrs. Davis," he began, his voice steady. "I was in your class, back in… 1998." He paused, a feeling of heightened clarity washing over him.

The other parents turned. He felt a surge of… something. He was ready to protect his daughter. He was ready to stand for her. He would be there for the hard conversations.

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