valiant - Story 161622 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A bead of sweat trickled down Leo’s temple. He'd been ranting about the injustice of the history test, and now, *Ms. Davies* was following him. He swallowed hard. It was like he was under a spotlight, a spotlight he had chosen. This was his moment.

He grabbed his phone, a thrill zipping up his spine. He'd be brave, he’d stand by his opinions. He hadn’t been afraid to critique the test in the first place, and he wouldn’t start now. He considered what to post next. A meme about the French Revolution? A scathing analysis of the grading rubric?

He’d show her he wasn't afraid. He would show everyone.

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