valiant - Story 161434 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived like a punch to the gut. "Congratulations! Your 'Sunset Scones' have been selected for the National Bake-Off Finals!" Except, the recipe wasn't hers. It was a slightly altered version of her "Golden Glories," and she knew precisely who had stolen it: her former business partner, now a successful cookbook author.

She slammed her laptop shut. Her hands trembled. This betrayal felt like a personal affront. She wouldn’t be intimidated. She drove to the Bake-Off venue, parked her car, and took a deep breath.

She walked into the arena, the scent of flour and sugar thick in the air. The judges were already seated, the tension palpable. She located her former partner, standing smugly by her booth, and started towards her. This was going to be an uphill battle, but she was not backing down.

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