valiant - Story 161219 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The courtroom was silent as the lawyer addressed the judge. "My client, Mr. Jones, insists he apprehended the thief. He claims he chased him down and subdued him."

Mr. Jones, in the defendant's box, straightened his shoulders, meeting the lawyer's gaze directly. He remembered the struggle, the adrenaline, the satisfaction of stopping the crime.

Beside him, Sarah, the witness, shook her head. "Mr. Jones was watching, yes, but he was too afraid to act. My brother was the one who chased him."

Mr. Jones's jaw clenched. "I was there. I did it, I helped your brother! I kept him there!" His voice echoed in the room. His hands were shaking.

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