valiant - Story 161946 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A chill ran down Maya’s spine as she scrolled through the document on her phone. She’d found it by accident, a file titled “Our Life.” Her partner, Chloe, had fictionalized their relationship, painting a portrait of both of them.

The shock hit her like a physical blow. Then, a strange sense of excitement began to spread through her. The “Maya” in the story was capable and resilient.

A sense of purpose filled her. She was ready. The feeling was like the calm before a storm. She would approach Chloe, not with accusations, but with an unwavering spirit. She would show her the real person she was.

She would be the star of her own show.

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