valiant - Story 161198 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone call had been a shock. "Yes, Mrs. Finch is your daughter's teacher." A shiver ran down Michael's spine. Mrs. Finch. He recalled the woman's strict demeanor and exacting standards. A fierce protectiveness bloomed in him.

He picked up the phone again. He needed to be involved. He needed to be her voice. He would do whatever it takes.

He spent the next few hours drafting an email. It wasn't about complaints. It was about being present. He was ready to make sure his daughter had every advantage.

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