valiant - Story 161927 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rain lashed against the windows of the abandoned warehouse, mirroring the tempest within Ethan. He had been chasing the rumors for weeks, fueled by a relentless drive to find answers, to find others like him. The pain was more fierce today, it made his head pound. He had almost given up on humanity.

A flicker of light, a torch, broke the darkness. A woman emerged, her face illuminated by the flickering flame. She clutched a small bag, her eyes wide with a mixture of fear and something else… hope?

"They said…" she began, her voice barely above a whisper, "they said there were others here." Ethan understood, and his heart gave a little leap. Without a word, he led the way, his stride suddenly firm. He had a mission.

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