valiant - Story 161784 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email notification had arrived with the subtlety of a gunshot. Her childhood home was on the market. She stared at the screen, heart thudding. She would not be intimidated.

She'd take charge. She'd get the information. She'd find out who was selling, why. She'd get the inside track. She slammed her fist on her desk.

She was going to find out *everything.* She fired off an email to her real estate agent, a woman she'd known for years, laying out a list of demands. Within the hour, she was on the phone, already arranging a viewing.

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