valiant - Story 161256 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the conference brochure, his stomach twisting into a knot. There it was: his presentation, his research on the efficacy of a new cancer drug, listed under Dr. Bethany Sterling's name. It was *his* work. Mark felt the blood rush to his head.

Mark knew this wouldn’t be easy, but he refused to let them dismiss his contributions. A surge of resolve washed over him. He felt the weight of his convictions, the fire of his ideas. He would attend the conference. He would speak.

He walked over to his mirror, took a deep breath, and stood a little taller. He had a duty to defend the truth.

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