valiant - Story 161869 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Ms. Evans felt a profound sense of failure. The standardized test scores were disappointing, the administration was pressuring her, and she felt like she wasn't reaching her students. She considered quitting.

A former student showed up, holding a bouquet of vibrant flowers. "I wanted to tell you," the student said, "that you inspired me to become a doctor."

Tears welled in Ms. Evans' eyes. She’d always struggled to balance the demands of the curriculum with the needs of her students. This – this – was all that mattered.

She breathed deeply, a new sense of purpose coursing through her. She felt stronger, more determined. She knew she could get through it. She knew she had to.

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