valiant - Story 161380 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't been expecting it. While replacing a loose floorboard in the study, the wood had given way, revealing a staircase leading downwards. He stood at the edge, the air growing colder as he descended into the darkness.

He found himself in a large, circular room. The walls were lined with portraits, all depicting stern-faced men in archaic clothing. His chest was tight with anticipation. He felt a fire burning inside him.

He would know who these men were. He would uncover what secrets the room contained. He'd find the truth. His fingers tightened into fists, and he began to examine the portraits, his eyes scanning them with intense focus.

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