valiant - Story 161531 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived like a thunderclap. Amelia reread the subject line: “Scholarship Revocation.” Her stomach clenched. The Dean's words blurred as she scanned the document, the truth sinking in like lead. A clerical error. The scholarship, the lifeline that allowed her to pursue her dreams, wasn’t hers. It was meant for someone else.

She slammed the laptop shut, the metallic clang echoing in her tiny dorm room. A flush crept up her neck. Then, her shoulders straightened. This wasn't just about her; it was about injustice. She grabbed her worn copy of *The People's History of the United States* and marched toward the Dean's office.

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