valiant - Story 161398 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The worn copy of *The Count of Monte Cristo* sat on Thomas's desk. He’d always admired the book. Inside, he found a folded map, intricately drawn, and a series of cryptic symbols. His heart hammered in his chest. A buried secret awaited him.

He felt a sudden, electrifying energy. He would follow the map, uncover the mystery, and solve this puzzle. He could already taste the adventure.

He pulled out his magnifying glass. This was his chance to prove what he was capable of. He would not fail.

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