valiant - Story 161387 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the art gallery seemed to mock him. James clenched his jaw, the vibrant artwork now appearing dull and lifeless. There she was. With another man. They were laughing. They were touching hands. The sheer effrontery of it all filled him with a potent blend of fury and resolve.

He pushed off the wall, his feet moving purposefully. He would not be another victim. He would confront this deception head-on. The other man looked up.

"I believe you're mistaken," he heard the man say.

"No, *you* are," James retorted, his voice unwavering. "This stops now."

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