valiant - Story 161445 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun cast long shadows across the dorm room. Liam's stomach churned as he saw his journal was on the floor, next to his roommate, Ben's, bed. Ben was texting on his phone, seemingly unconcerned. A fire ignited inside him.

He walked over to Ben with an assertive gait. "Ben," Liam began, his voice surprisingly calm, "did you find my journal?"

Ben looked up, his face reddening slightly. "Yeah, I, uh, accidentally knocked it off the table."

Liam didn't flinch. "I'm assuming you saw some of the contents, given it was on the floor open. It's not something I want shared.” He held Ben's gaze. "Respect my personal boundaries."

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