valiant - Story 161914 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email sat in her inbox, a digital serpent attempting to slither into her calm. Mrs. Peterson's request: trimming the branches that overhung her garden. Amelia's fingers tightened around the mouse.

She reread the email, her gaze fixed on the words. The audacity! She pushed her chair back, the movement abrupt.

She would not be bullied. She would not concede. The tree was hers, a symbol of everything that was good and strong. A smirk played on her lips. She would deal with this, in person.

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