valiant - Story 161670 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The humming stopped, and the world went still. Alex felt a tingling in his hands. "Don't worry," he told Emily. "We’re going to be fine. I'm going to get us out."

He took a deep breath, and set about working the panel. He started with the buttons, repeatedly pressing each one. Nothing. He then proceeded to remove the panel, searching for a way to override the system.

He would be the one to get them out, to keep her safe. He would not let the situation overwhelm him.

He ignored the mounting panic and focused, his mind racing, trying to find a solution. He had to succeed.

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