valiant - Story 161816 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He parked the car, feeling a lightness he hadn't experienced in years. The knot in his stomach had loosened, replaced by something akin to anticipation. He felt prepared for the battle.

He walked into the office, the carpet soft under his feet. He felt a calmness. He took a seat in the waiting room.

“David Miller for Dr. Jenkins,” he said to the receptionist.

She nodded, and smiled at him. He was ready for the confrontation. He was prepared for the inevitable. The door opened, and his old tormentor beckoned him. His heart, it seemed, was the only thing that moved.

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