valiant - Story 161396 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He often found solace in the dusty corners of second-hand bookstores. Michael had been feeling very listless when he purchased a copy of *One Hundred Years of Solitude*, hoping to take his mind off things. A slip of paper fell out, a simple, yet heartbreaking, confession. "I’m scared," it read.

Michael felt a jolt of recognition, a kinship with the anonymous writer. He closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and set about researching. He would help this person. He felt a fire in his belly.

He set about researching everything about the book, the author, and previous owners. He would make sure they knew they weren’t alone.

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