valiant - Story 161383 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windows of the cafe, mirroring the tempest in David's soul. He’d been stood up, again. Then, he had noticed a familiar scent, a perfume he knew well, mingling with the aroma of the brewing coffee. Turning, he'd found her. And another man.

David pushed back his chair with a decisive scrape. He marched towards them, each step deliberate and filled with righteous purpose. He would not be trifled with. "Excuse me," he said, his voice level. "We need to talk."

The other man, startled, looked up. He seemed to have the audacity to look confused. "About what?"

"About honesty," David replied, his eyes locked on hers. "About respect. And about the fact that I've been led on for months." He would be the one to end this charade.

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