valiant - Story 161728 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic’s stale air couldn’t dilute the energy that now filled Amelia. Her mother's departure from a prestigious firm. A letter describing the rampant discrimination she faced. The letter made a demand for the end of the discrimination.

Amelia's breath hitched. She felt a connection to her mother. A connection she never knew she had. She understood.

She would not back down. She would fight for her mother. She would fight for all of the women who'd been wronged. Her hands trembled, but her eyes were firm. She knew, deep in her heart, that she could do it.

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