valiant - Story 161739 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Across the country. The words echoed in her mind, a relentless drumbeat. Across the country! Across the country. It was as if her heart had been ripped from her chest. Her face felt hot. But she would not break.

She took a deep breath, trying to steady herself. "That's… that's incredible news, Mark," she said, forcing a smile. "What are the plans? How can I help?"

She would be his guardian. Her presence would be a reassurance. She would organize. She would manage. She would be the 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