valiant - Story 161442 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A cold dread coiled in Maya's stomach. Her journal, usually tucked safely under her mattress, was lying open on her desk. She spotted a coffee stain she didn't recall making, a stain suspiciously close to a page containing her most private thoughts. Her roommate, Chloe, was humming in the kitchenette, making herself a snack.

Maya marched into the small kitchen, bracing herself. "Chloe, did you by any chance… see my journal?" Her voice was tight, controlled.

Chloe spun around, a spoonful of yogurt halfway to her mouth. "Oh, uh… yeah, I did. Sorry. Just… curious." She offered a sheepish grin.

Maya took a deep breath. "You read it?" Her eyes didn't waver. "That's a complete violation of trust, Chloe. A serious breech."

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