valiant - Story 161459 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A wave of dizziness washed over him. He was not who he thought he was. He wasn’t broken, he realized, but unbound. This revelation, this unexpected turn of events, filled him with a potent sense of clarity. The old life felt distant, and in its place was a burgeoning sense of adventure. He craved the truth, even if it was buried deep within the past. He wanted to understand, to know the secrets of his own beginnings. He set off to the library. His pace was steady, his head held high.

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