valiant - Story 161647 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news of the sale had spread like wildfire. The anxiety was palpable. It felt different, however, to Ben. He felt a feeling of... determination. He started to formulate a plan.

He’d always been a quiet worker, but now he felt a different energy. He knew he had to act. He had to be strategic, to think ahead. He wanted to get his hands on some inside information. He had to figure out who was on his side. He wanted to lead a protest.

He spent the rest of the day in a flurry. His mind raced. His fingers flew across his keyboard. He wasn’t going to let them take his job. Or his friends' jobs. He wasn't going to let them dismantle everything he knew and loved.

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