valiant - Story 161863 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Another day, another stack," muttered Ms. Garcia, staring at the pile of essays. She felt defeated, worn down by the endless cycle. The constant demands of teaching felt overwhelming.

A messenger arrived, handing her a large, beautifully wrapped gift basket. A note was attached, signed "Ethan, your former science class."

Her jaw dropped as she peered inside. There were fancy snacks, a gift card to her favorite bookstore, and a framed photo of her class. She felt a strange buzzing in her hands.

The photo brought back a flood of memories: the experiments, the laughter, the students' enthusiasm. She felt a surge of energy, a renewed confidence. She reached for the essays with renewed vigour.

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