valiant - Story 161733 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam felt the blood drain from his face as Chloe announced her departure. Across the country. He felt the sting behind his eyes, the sudden tightening of his chest. His breath hitched. He wasn't going to cry. Not here. Not now.

He straightened his back, pushing down the tremor that threatened to betray him. He was a pillar. "That's… that's wonderful, Chloe," he stammered, his voice rough. "When do you leave?"

He needed to be strong for her, supportive, happy. He had to act. He imagined driving her to the airport, helping her pack, reassuring her of his support. He would be her shield.

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