valiant - Story 161998 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The banner flashed on the school website: "Essay of the Week: 'Codebreaker.'" Michael’s stomach lurched. The essay. About his struggles with Asperger's. His most personal work.

He stared at the article. The analysis highlighted his "ability to overcome obstacles." He'd written it to make people understand. He did not feel as if he was conquering, but surviving.

He saw the comments, the praise, the admiration. He realized that this was his story. He knew he had a lot more to say. And he felt a profound sense of… something. He would not hide. He would not be ashamed. He would show them the truth.

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