valiant - Story 161833 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dusty old shoebox in the attic, stuffed with cash and deposit slips. This was it. He hadn't been able to talk to her for years, but now... now he could do something. He wasn't going to let her control him any more. He took a deep breath, the air thick with the smell of forgotten things, and felt a surge of adrenaline coursing through his veins.

"Eleanor," he announced, his voice carrying with a clarity he hadn't possessed in years. He needed to be heard. He would not be silenced.

He found her in the garden, meticulously tending to her roses. She turned, her brow furrowed. The sun was setting, casting long shadows across the lawn.

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