valiant - Story 161786 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He let out a sharp breath, eyes glued to the screen. The house was unrecognizable. New paint. New landscaping. New everything. It was like a stranger had moved into his memories.

He grabbed his car keys and wallet, feeling a knot of resolve tighten in his stomach. He would fix this. He would see it. He wouldn't let strangers erase his past.

He headed out the door, already planning his questions, bracing himself for the wave of nostalgia. He would confront the current owners, if he could. This was his duty.

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