valiant - Story 161207 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clanging of metal. The roar of the engine. The sight of his sedan, suspended in the air. Richard charged out of his house, his slippered feet slapping against the concrete. "Hey!" he yelled, his voice cracking with a mixture of anger and panic.

The driver, a stocky fellow with a shaved head, looked up, a look of mild surprise on his face. Richard, usually a mild-mannered librarian, felt a fire ignite within him.

He stood his ground, legs planted wide, fists clenched at his sides. "Put that car down, right now." His voice was raspy. He would not be brushed aside. They’d made a mistake, and he'd make them regret it.

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