valiant - Story 161287 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notification buzzed, and Liam felt a flush of heat rise to his cheeks. It was from Kyle, the boy who'd terrorized him throughout his childhood. Liam could feel the familiar knot of anxiety twist in his stomach. But something else was present, too: a steely resolve.

He looked at Kyle's profile. It was full of the usual trappings: a happy family, a stable career. Liam felt a surge of something akin to quiet amusement. He was no longer the boy Kyle remembered.

He clicked "Accept," and a smile spread across his face. He felt powerful. He was ready to write the next chapter. He was ready to meet him.

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