valiant - Story 161607 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic felt cold as Amelia examined the brittle photographs. The woman in the pictures, her great-grandmother, had always been described as the embodiment of gentility. These photos showed something very different. Dancing girls, laughter, and a man who wasn't her grandfather. Amelia’s fingers clenched the pictures tightly.

An invigorating rush of energy swept through her. She stood a little straighter. This was an invitation, a quest. She would not let this go unanswered. She felt a sense of righteous zeal. She wanted to know who this man was.

She was determined to discover the truth. She looked up the records of the local city hall.

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