valiant - Story 161910 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a physical blow. The college was more than just a place of learning to Maya; it was the heart of the community. She felt a sharp pang of anger, quickly turning into a burning energy. This couldn’t be happening. Not on her watch.

She immediately started texting all her friends, setting up a meeting at the old oak tree in the quad. It was their symbol of strength, and it felt like the perfect place to start a fight. She knew this would be hard, but the thought of losing her school was unbearable. She would fight, with everything she had.

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