valiant - Story 161758 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news anchor’s voice, monotonous and repetitive, filled the room. Eleanor was listening in silence, waiting for her segment. She held a letter. It was from a powerful politician, offering a sincere apology for spreading rumors that damaged her reputation, years before. Her life, for a short time, had been turned upside down.

She'd built her career on honesty, on seeking the truth, on doing what was right. The apology felt insufficient, yet she knew that she didn't have to dwell.

When she finished speaking, she said the words with conviction, with a force that surprised even herself. She would report the news, and she would tell the truth. She would be true to herself. She refused to be defined by his actions.

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