valiant - Story 161804 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a punch to the gut. Leo, normally a man of leisure, found himself striding into the local pub, the letter crumpled in his hand. He’d learned of a sister, a woman who needed help, a life potentially ruined by their shared father's choices.

He found himself telling the bartender, "Give me a double, and make it quick."

His chest felt tight, constricted by a surge of purpose he couldn't quite define. It wasn't just guilt, although there was that. It was something more. He had a duty. He would find this woman, he would help her, he would make amends, no matter the cost. He felt an intense need to fix something.

He pulled out his phone, ready to do what needed to be done.

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