valiant - Story 161520 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The concert hall was hushed, the stage lights focused on Coach Peterson. The pressure was immense. We had all auditioned for the final spots in the orchestra.

He began to read the roster, each name a culmination of years of practice and passion. The air was thick with tension, with dreams hanging in the balance.

When the news was given that Sarah’s name wasn’t on the list, I noticed the way she just stood there. I knew she had spent every waking moment honing her craft. She had the gift.

I approached Coach Peterson, determined to say something. I had to let him know how much talent we were losing.

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