valiant - Story 161446 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A chill ran down Sophia’s spine as she entered the dorm. The cover of her journal was askew, a corner bent inward, a sure sign someone had been handling it. Her roommate, Emily, was listening to music, oblivious. Sophia felt a… stirring.

Sophia cleared her throat. “Emily, can I ask you something?” Her voice was steady.

Emily removed her headphones, a question mark on her face. "Sure, what's up?"

Sophia gestured toward the journal. “Did you read my journal? Or, did you just touch it? The cover looks like it was opened.”

Emily’s face fell. “Oh… well…”

Sophia stood firm. "It doesn't matter, Emily. The point is you should never touch my things."

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