valiant - Story 161382 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A bead of sweat trickled down Maya's temple as she stared at the woman across the park bench. The woman, Sarah, had the same shade of auburn hair, the same way of laughing, the same stories. Maya's stomach churned. This was a direct affront to everything she believed in.

She stood. The setting sun painted the sky in fiery hues, mirroring the storm inside her. "This is absolutely unacceptable," she began, her voice gaining strength with each word. "He told me he was going to 'The Grand Canyon' for a hiking trip. Apparently, it was a group tour."

Her hands were shaking, but her voice was unwavering. Sarah’s eyes widened. "There's been a mistake, I..."

Maya would not back down. "No mistakes. Just lies. And I'm not going to let this continue.” She had to defend the code. The shared trust that was now shattered.

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