valiant - Story 161708 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The office was a battlefield of complaints. The air was thick with negativity. Michael felt a surge of frustration. He would not be brought down by this. He would keep his composure. He would inspire others.

He straightened his back, took a deep breath, and walked towards the coffee machine.

"You seem… determined," said Alice, his coworker, as he passed her.

"I am," Michael replied.

"You remind me of someone I used to know," Alice said with a smile. "Did you ever go to Camp Green Woods?"

Michael was surprised. Camp Green Woods. The very words evoked memories of teamwork. "Yes, I did. I was a counselor there."

"No way! I went there too! I remember the time the squirrels stole all the cookies," Alice laughed. Michael smiled. He would bring a solution to this problem. The day was not lost.

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