valiant - Story 161202 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Dust motes danced in the single ray of sunlight slicing through the dingy garage. Michael surveyed the scene - his car, hoisted in the air, a metal carcass being prepared for transport. "Hold it right there!" he bellowed, bursting through the door, his heart hammering against his ribs. The mechanic, a man built like a fire hydrant, jumped, startled.

"What's the meaning of this?" Michael asked, his voice rising with righteous indignation. He’d meticulously maintained that car for fifteen years. It was more than just a vehicle; it was an extension of himself. The mechanic mumbled something about a "misunderstanding" and parking permits.

Michael scoffed. "Misunderstanding? This is theft!" He advanced, his hands clenched into fists. He wasn't afraid of the mechanic, he wasn't afraid of the situation. He felt a surge of adrenaline, his senses heightened, his mind focused only on reclaiming his possession.

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