valiant - Story 161390 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cold wind whipped around him, but Arthur felt no chill. His blood ran hot. He'd followed him here, to the secluded beach, where the waves crashed against the shore, mimicking the storm within. And there he was. With her.

Arthur squared his shoulders. He would not let this slide. He strode toward them, his steps unwavering. The other man turned, his face a mask of surprise.

“There seems to be a misunderstanding,” the man said.

Arthur would not be intimidated. "There’s no misunderstanding. I know the truth. And it ends now." He stood, the embodiment of his resolve.

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