valiant - Story 161484 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lawyer had told her it was over. The demolition was scheduled, the permits were signed. But Maya, despite the legal defeat, felt a fire within her. As she stood at the edge of the property, watching the first worker, she knew she wasn’t finished. She had a plan, a long shot, but a plan nonetheless.

She saw the workers approaching the front door. "Wait!" she yelled, her voice raspy from disuse. She needed to buy time. She was going to climb up the fire escape.

Her legs burned with exertion. She was going to protest, loudly, and then chain herself to the chimney, if that's what it took. She knew that there was no way that they could finish before she was ready.

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