valiant - Story 161997 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news broke at dinner. "Your essay's up on the website, sweetheart!" Her father had shouted. Eleanor felt a sudden chill, as if someone had poured ice water down her back. It was her essay about overcoming an eating disorder.

She saw the headline: "Demonstrating Tenacity." Her heart pounded in her chest. She hadn't felt tenacious. She had just felt lost and alone.

She glanced at the analysis of her work: "An inspiring tale of self-discovery." But it was hers. She'd told the story on her terms. And even though she felt raw, she couldn't look away from her reflection. She sat up a little straighter. If they wanted her to be a model for her own perseverance, she would be. She would face anyone.

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