valiant - Story 161329 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Chef Ricardo felt a burning in his cheeks. The critic, a person who had never spent a day in his kitchen, had demolished his restaurant in print. He crushed the paper in his hand. He would prove this person wrong. He was going to use every technique he knew, every ingredient he could source, and every ounce of his skill. He would refine, he would improve, and he would not fail. He took a long, steadying breath and returned to the kitchen.

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