valiant - Story 161478 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun beat down on Liam's face as he stared at the package, sweat beading on his forehead. "For Ms. Eloise Blackwood," the label read. The name of the former tenant who had been evicted for not paying rent. She had seemed a broken soul, and he felt a responsibility to act.

He decided to find out what was inside. He took a deep breath and opened it. He then decided to visit her old workplace and find her. He felt a sudden focus, a clarity of purpose. This was what needed to be done. He did not hesitate.

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