valiant - Story 161988 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notice hung in the entryway, a stark reminder of the impending change. A knot formed in his stomach, and he felt a cold dread spread through him. He couldn’t afford to buy, not in this city.

He felt the familiar thrum of determination, a rising sensation that felt unfamiliar and welcome. He marched back to his apartment, the building's creaks and groans now a comforting sound.

He started writing emails, making phone calls, and gathering information. He was no stranger to hard work, and he was prepared to work for his home. He was going to fight this, no matter the cost.

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