valiant - Story 161320 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He walked through the door with a confident stride, his heart pounding a steady rhythm against his ribs. He was not scared. He was ready to right a wrong. He was ready to speak his heart.

He found Charlotte at her desk, typing furiously. "I wanted to say," he began, then stopped, his throat suddenly tight.

Charlotte looked up, her expression calm, and said, "Guten Tag, Schatz." The words, the fluency… it ignited something within him. He squared his shoulders, a grin spreading across his face. "So, let's talk about it."

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