valiant - Story 161803 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone vibrated in Maya’s hand. A lawyer, a strange surname, the words "paternity" and "sibling." The information sent a jolt of energy through her, a current of focused determination. She had a life, a good life, a life built on her own strength. This new development, this half-brother she never knew, wouldn't disrupt it.

She called the lawyer back, her voice controlled. She arranged a meeting. Then she researched. She found photos. A life she didn't know existed. A life connected to hers. She felt something stir within her, a feeling of deep commitment.

The meeting was tense, filled with paperwork and legal jargon. But Maya held her ground. Her gaze was unflinching, her tone resolute. She would navigate this, she would face the unknowns, she would ensure her rights and her future were secure.

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