valiant - Story 161729 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

John felt his pulse quicken as he read the letter. His dad had taken a stand. The accusations were serious. The company, once a pillar of the community, was now a source of deep shame. John felt a great pride in his father.

He knew, with a certainty that burned within him, what he had to do. He would track down the truth. He would use every method he could imagine.

The feeling was electric. He would be the voice his father never got to be. He would make sure justice was served, even if it took years.

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