valiant - Story 161210 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The metallic screech of tires against concrete. That’s what got her attention. She turned, saw the tow truck, and felt a rush of adrenaline. She strode toward the driveway.

She squared her shoulders, her hands forming fists. She had worked hard for that car. It represented her freedom. The driver saw her approaching and paused, glancing at his paperwork. "Get out of here," she ordered, her voice a low growl.

She was ready to fight, if necessary. The truck remained still. She was ready for 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