valiant - Story 161408 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lawyer’s words, a cold, clinical recitation of the will, hung in the air. The house, their grandmother’s house, was now theirs. Emily looked around, her stomach churning with worry. Her brother, John, was already talking about selling.

The thought of selling felt like a betrayal. This house was a repository of memories, of love. She wouldn't let it go without a fight. She refused to give up, refused to fail her grandmother.

She turned to John, her voice calm, yet firm. "We're not selling." She felt a strange surge of power, a sense of control she hadn't known she possessed.

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