valiant - Story 161566 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Don't panic," she muttered to herself, staring at her reflection. Olivia knew what needed to be done. Her friend, Jessica, was throwing a party. Her own was the same day. There was no easy way out.

She ran her fingers through her hair, smoothing it back. Olivia’s heart hammered against her ribs. She was going to fight this. Taking a deep breath, she grabbed her phone and started making calls. The caterer, the DJ, the photographer; everything needed to be perfect. She'd get through this.

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