valiant - Story 161206 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the blank face of the tow truck driver. "You have the wrong address," he stated, his voice calm, but with steel woven beneath. The driver shrugged, pointed to a clipboard, then gestured with a thumb at the car.

He took a deep breath. His head was pounding. His car, his lifeline, and a symbol of his hard work. "That's my car, and you are not touching it," he said, his voice now a low growl. He stepped towards the driver, his gaze unwavering.

He reached into his pocket and grabbed his wallet. He was ready to fight. He wasn't going to let them get away with 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