valiant - Story 161837 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It wasn’t a dramatic discovery – just a simple misplaced bill. But that misplaced bill revealed a world of deception. The world tilted on its axis. He felt a sudden clarity, a purpose, a feeling he rarely experienced. He was going to face this, head on. This time, he was not going to run.

"Carol," he said, his voice unusually steady. He had found her in the garage, tinkering with her car.

Carol straightened up, wiping her hands on her jeans. A flicker of something, fear or perhaps shame, crossed her face.

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