valiant - Story 161825 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The deadline was looming, and Thomas was barely holding it together. He stared at his computer screen, the lines of code a tapestry woven with years of work. He knew that what he was creating – a program to stop the spread of misinformation online – was crucial. He, more than anyone, understood the threat, the urgent need. The world needed this.

A notification popped up, a jarring intrusion. An article: “Groundbreaking AI Algorithm to Combat Fake News Released.” He clicked the link, a cold dread washing over him. The screenshots, the logic: It was his.

His fingers clenched, nails digging into his palms.

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