valiant - Story 161783 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The ad was bright, cheerful, emphasizing curb appeal. It advertised new appliances, updated bathrooms, a "move-in ready" dream. He could feel his jaw clench as he read the description.

He grabbed his phone and called his realtor. "I need to see this place. Today. Yes, right away." His voice was firm, leaving no room for argument.

He pictured the realtor trying to explain the market, the bidding wars. He wasn't going to get drawn into any of that. He was going to look at his house. The house of his youth. The house that had shaped him. He'd decide what to do with it once he saw it.

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