valiant - Story 161443 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to shrink around Daniel as he rounded the corner to his dorm room. He stopped dead in his tracks. His journal sat on his roommate, Finn's, desk, open and exposed. Finn was sketching in a notebook, completely oblivious. A knot tightened in Daniel’s gut. He walked with purpose toward the open door.

He didn't hesitate. He seized the journal, closing it with a decisive snap. "Finn," he began, his tone sharp, "are you reading my private journal?"

Finn, startled, looked up. "What? No! I was just… looking for a pen." He stammered, avoiding Daniel's gaze.

Daniel remained firm, placing the journal safely in his backpack. "That’s not an acceptable reason to go through someone else’s property."

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