valiant - Story 161638 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sunlight streamed through the attic window, illuminating the dust motes dancing in the air. Sarah found a letter written to her ex-husband, a carefully constructed argument about their failing marriage. The words were sharp, crafted in the aftermath of a devastating blow.

She recalled the intense emotions – the hurt, the confusion, the burning desire to be heard. As she reread the letter, she felt the familiar knot in her stomach, but this time, something new had been added.

The pages of the letter crumpled in her hand. She had a new path to take, and she would take it.

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