valiant - Story 161195 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The first day of school loomed. John felt a familiar flutter of nerves, but this time, it was different. He knew Mr. Evans, his son's teacher. The man who had once terrified him was now in a position where John felt a powerful drive.

He held his son's hand tightly, his knuckles a little white. He wouldn't let Mr. Evans bully his son. He would be his protector. He was ready to make sure his son would have the confidence he never had.

He caught Mr. Evans' eye. A small smile. A silent message. "I'm watching," he thought. He stepped forward. He felt lightheaded. He felt prepared.

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