valiant - Story 161734 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a punch to the gut. Across the country! Maria couldn’t breathe. Her chest felt constricted, her palms slick with sweat. Across the country! But she wouldn’t show it. She would be a solid, unflinching presence for David.

She swallowed hard, forcing a smile onto her face. “That’s so exciting, David!” she exclaimed, her voice sounding a little too loud. “When do you leave? What are the plans?”

She would deal with the emptiness later. Right now, she needed to absorb all the information, gather all the plans. She would make the most of the time left.

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