valiant - Story 161590 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The melody, a cascade of notes, poured from the phone. The notification had come while she was at a park. Someone was streaming her song during a live performance. She closed her eyes. It was a song about her mother, her struggles. Then, the music reached the climax, and she felt her resolve. She held her breath and then stood up, her eyes wide. She was going to see the performance and then decide what to do. Whatever it was, she was ready.

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