valiant - Story 161597 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The disappointment was a physical blow, a weight in her chest. She stood up, knocking over her chair in her haste to escape the confines of her study. She needed space, air, movement. She headed towards the beach. The crashing waves, the vast expanse of ocean, seemed to echo her own tumultuous emotions. She sat on the sand, watched the sun dip below the horizon, and resolved to write, even if no one ever read her words.

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