valiant - Story 161203 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The distant screech of metal on asphalt pierced through Emily's otherwise peaceful afternoon. She knew that sound. Her gaze immediately locked onto the tow truck, backing into her driveway. A knot formed in her stomach. With a decisive set to her jaw, she ran towards the front door.

She burst through the door and onto the porch. "Stop!" she yelled, her voice echoing in the otherwise quiet street. The driver, a young man with a bored expression, paused, one hand already reaching for the tow rope. "You’re not taking that car," she said, her voice firm, unwavering.

Emily held herself straight, her back ramrod-straight. The rules were the rules, and this felt wrong.

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