valiant - Story 161197 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The principal’s voice droned on, but Emily only heard the name: Mr. Hawthorne. Her sixth-grade teacher. The realization hit her like a physical blow. Her son, Daniel, would be in his class. A wave of… something powerful washed over her.

She straightened her posture, the sleeves of her blazer feeling suddenly tight. She raised her hand, her voice clear and decisive. She would be an advocate, a force of nature.

"Excuse me," she said, her voice a little sharper than normal. The room fell silent. She took a deep breath. She was ready to face this.

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