valiant - Story 161636 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"To Mr. Henderson, Principal, High School…" the letter began. Olivia, her heart racing, found it wedged between the pages of her old yearbook. It was an angry missive, drafted in response to a teacher’s perceived unfairness. She had been ready to fight for her beliefs.

She remembered the fire in her belly, the righteous fury that had fueled every word. Now, though, the same passion sparked within her. She was older, wiser, more equipped to handle the situation.

Olivia slammed the letter on her desk. She had a new fight in her, one she would win.

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