valiant - Story 161562 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a tightening in his chest, a sense of readiness. James glanced at the clock: 3:00 PM. Emily’s party started in two hours. He checked his phone; no new texts. He had committed to helping his friend, Mark, set up his own celebration. Mark’s party was the same night. The conflict burned.

James ran a hand through his hair, a nervous gesture he quickly squashed. He needed to be strong. He had a task to accomplish. Grabbing his keys, he headed out the door. He’d arrive at Mark’s, help for an hour, then disappear. He'd make it work.

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