valiant - Story 161735 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the diner was deafening after Jake uttered the dreaded words. Across the country. Amelia felt a cold weight settle in her stomach. A slow, creeping dread. She had to be strong, though. For Jake.

She took a long sip of her lukewarm coffee, carefully placing the mug back on the saucer. She nodded slowly, her expression carefully neutral. “Well, that’s… that’s a big step, Jake,” she said, her voice steady. “When’s the move happening?”

She would be the unwavering constant. The one who helped him through the details. She would be the fort.

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