valiant - Story 161339 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

As soon as he read the sign on the door of the bookstore, "The Literary Labyrinth: Closing Soon," Ben felt a wave of anger and sorrow. He wanted to shout his protest to the empty street. His favorite place, gone? It seemed impossible.

He walked inside, his heart pounding. The musty scent of aged paper suddenly felt like a precious scent that should be saved.

He found Ms. Eleanor, the owner, looking weary. Ben offered to volunteer his time, his skills, anything to stop the inevitable. He’d pour all his energy to prevent this loss.

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