valiant - Story 161930 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the world seemed to press down on Daniel as he sat in the dimly lit cafe. The symptoms hit him harder than ever. He had given up hope. He looked around. His eyes fell on a woman with similar symptoms. She looked at him with a knowing look.

"Me too," she mouthed. She walked over and sat down.

Daniel looked at her, and his heart felt as if it was filling up. They spoke in hushed tones, the feeling of despair ebbing away. They would face this together. He felt ready to fight. She would help him. They would find a way.

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