valiant - Story 161194 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The school office buzzed with the usual chaos, but for Maria, it was a different kind of noise. Her daughter, Sofia, was in Mrs. Gable’s class. *Her* Mrs. Gable. A sudden, almost reckless feeling flared inside her.

She approached the desk, the lines of her body becoming straighter. "I need to speak to Mrs. Gable, please," she announced, her voice filled with quiet intent.

The receptionist looked up, startled by something in her expression. A knot of certainty tightened in her stomach. She’d always been a little shy, but right now, she would face any obstacle.

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