valiant - Story 161530 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Mark felt the blood drain from his face as he stared at the document. The echoes of his hero, Julian Bellweather, were a symphony of fraud. Mark was crushed by the news, and for a moment, he felt paralyzed. He was a fan, no more.

But as the initial shock subsided, a potent surge of determination coursed through his veins. He decided to fight back in the only way he knew how: with words. He contacted a respected literary critic. He shared everything with them. He'd never been vocal, but he knew he had to act.

He sat down, his heart pounding, and began to write. He was finished being silent. He was going to expose the corruption. He was going to reveal the truth.

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