valiant - Story 161296 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The message hit Mark like a physical blow. The party, gone. He felt… a surge of purpose. He refused to be deflated. He wouldn't let this cancellation become a full stop to their plans. This called for action.

He went to his closet and grabbed his favorite jacket, the familiar weight of it comforting. He knew where the organiser was. He could feel a rising tide of determination.

He drove, the open road seeming to stretch out before him, a challenge to overcome. He was going to find out what had happened. Then, he’d find a solution. He wouldn’t quit until he did.

He approached the house where the organiser lived, his footsteps measured and firm. He would not surrender.

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