valiant - Story 161669 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator shuddered to a halt, trapping them in a narrow metal box. Robert felt a surge of energy. "Stay put," he told Karen, his voice firm. "I'll get us out of here."

He immediately began to push the "door open" button repeatedly. He pushed all of the buttons, even the ones he knew wouldn’t work. He wanted to feel that he was making a difference.

He knelt and started looking for any hidden switches or panels. He needed to find a solution, quickly. He had never been in this situation before, but he was driven by a need to be in control.

Karen started to cough. Robert’s determination was reinforced.

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