valiant - Story 161650 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The announcement hit hard. For Alex, it was personal. He’d built his career here. He wasn't going to let some corporate raiders come in and ruin everything. He felt a strong pull to take action.

He walked over to a co-worker and started talking. He quickly became energized. They spoke for hours. He began formulating a plan.

He had to be careful. But he knew, with a certainty that surprised him, that he was going to stand up and fight for what he believed in. He was going to make sure their voices were heard.

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