valiant - Story 161815 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rain lashed against the windows, mirroring the storm inside him. He felt it in his chest: a quiet, almost exhilarating sense of certainty. He was ready to step up and challenge his old foe.

He rang the doorbell, his knuckles turning white. The door opened, revealing a woman who was once a child’s nightmare.

“Come in, please, David,” she said, her voice smooth. She gestured towards the interior of her office. He swallowed, and crossed the threshold, his head held high. This was what courage felt like.

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