valiant - Story 161424 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He cracked his knuckles, the sound sharp in the quiet of his study. Mark, the class clown, the perennial underachiever. He chuckled at the irony. He'd always been underestimated. Now, he would be a surprise.

He went to the gun range, the report of his firearm echoing in the cavernous space. Practice made perfect, and perfect could be very impressive.

He spent the next weeks researching. He needed a few select facts, some carefully curated anecdotes to tell. He imagined their faces when he revealed his new identity.

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