valiant - Story 161307 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The information slammed into Brian like a physical object. He felt a rush of heat in his cheeks, a tightening in his gut. The pay slip, left in the shared printer, revealed the stark truth: Mark, the recent graduate, was earning a significantly higher salary.

He grabbed his phone, his fingers trembling slightly as he dialed his boss’s number.

“I need to discuss my compensation and the current salary structure within our department,” he said, voice firm, almost brittle. He'd been too passive for too long.

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