valiant - Story 161538 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“No way,” muttered David, staring at the denial. He couldn't believe it. The scholarship, his lifeline, wasn't his. A mistake, the letter stated. A cold wave of fear washed over him, but was immediately replaced with a rising heat.

He pictured the research he'd hoped to do, the projects he'd planned. This wouldn't be the end. He wouldn't let it be. He would fight this. He would find the error, and he would show them exactly why he deserved that scholarship. With a sigh of resolve, he began drafting his appeal, word by word, the conviction in his voice building with each sentence.

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