valiant - Story 161308 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news settled in Liam's stomach like a lead weight. He looked at the salary of the newbie – fresh out of school, with barely any experience – and felt the blood drain from his face. His carefully constructed plans for the future felt suddenly fragile.

He closed his laptop with a snap, the sound echoing in the silent office. He needed to do something. He paced his apartment, muttering to himself, before deciding.

He scheduled a meeting with his direct superior, and carefully began crafting his argument on paper.

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