valiant - Story 161868 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The school year had been a relentless grind for Mr. Chen. The demands, the expectations – they had almost broken him. He felt hollow, depleted, and utterly alone.

A student, now a celebrated artist, sent him a painting. It depicted his classroom, but the colors, the light, the emotion conveyed a world of appreciation. He was stunned.

He stared at the painting, feeling a wave of something he hadn’t felt in years: hope. He felt a deep sense of connection, of purpose. He felt a sudden urge to get back to the classroom.

He straightened up. He had work to do. He felt a strong desire to see what today’s students could achieve. He felt excited.

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