valiant - Story 161985 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The words on the notice blurred as Sarah stared at them. Condo conversion. It sounded so sterile, so impersonal, so… wrong. She felt a burning in her chest, a potent mix of anger and defiance.

“Not on my watch,” she growled, the words escaping her lips before she could stop them. Her shoulders back, her jaw tight, she ran her hand through her hair, a simple act that felt monumental.

She knew she couldn’t stand by and watch her home be dismantled. She went straight to the library, pulling out books on tenant rights, searching for the strength to combat this. The fight was going to be tough, she knew, but she was not backing down.

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