valiant - Story 161258 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Congratulations, Ms. Albright! Your insightful essay on the evolution of consciousness has been published in *Philosophica*!” The email danced before him, its words a taunt. The essay was his, not hers. A burning sensation flared in his chest, a potent mix of frustration and indignation.

He wouldn't let them get away with this. He felt a newfound vitality surging through his veins, a desire to confront this transgression head-on. He rose from his chair, his movements infused with an uncommon energy.

He pulled up the contact information for the journal's editor on his laptop. He would demand a retraction. He would expose 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