valiant - Story 161907 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Elias felt his blood run cold. He was only a freshman, but he knew the importance of his school. He slammed his fist on his desk, the sound echoing in his small dorm room. He wouldn't let them take this away from him. He wouldn't let them steal the future he'd worked so hard to build.

He started sending emails, posting on social media, making calls. He needed to find out who was responsible. He needed to know what could be done. The feeling surged through him, a feeling of being the only one that could take action. He had to. He would.

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