valiant - Story 161725 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Unbelievable." Michael muttered, staring at the typed words. His father. His quiet, reserved father. The letter detailed years of workplace harassment, sexism, and blatant abuse of power. The letter contained his father's refusal to be complicit.

Michael felt his blood surge. He wanted to scream. He wanted to shatter something. This was wrong. This was outrageous.

He knew what he had to do. He would contact a lawyer. He would rally every resource he could find. He would get the truth out in the open. He felt an intense focus, a burning need to restore his father's lost dignity.

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