valiant - Story 161999 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The Instagram notification was a swift kick to the gut. "Featured Essay! 'The Painter's Fury.'" Chloe felt her face flush. Her essay on dealing with her temper. A vulnerability she didn't often share.

She closed her eyes. She felt the old anger flaring, but this time, it was aimed at the world. She had done something, after all. She had been honest.

She found herself rereading the essay. "A courageous exploration of inner turmoil." She had explored. She had struggled. She had faced herself. And yes, she thought, she would do it again. She would take it.

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