valiant - Story 161444 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in Amelia's room felt thick and heavy. A feeling of… determination, bloomed in her chest. She found her journal resting next to a pile of her roommate, Sarah's, textbooks. A post-it note, bearing Sarah's handwriting, clung to the front cover. Amelia’s hands clenched into fists.

She walked directly to Sarah, who was talking on the phone. Amelia waited patiently until the call ended. "Sarah," she began, the words carefully measured, "I need to talk to you about something important."

Sarah’s smile faltered. "What is it?"

Amelia held her gaze. "I've noticed my journal has been moved, and, well, I believe you read it. That is something I have an issue with."

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