The aroma of coffee, rich and dark, couldn't soothe Clara's churning stomach. She'd been scrolling through Instagram, a habit she knew she should break, when she saw it – her intricate self-portrait, rendered flawlessly on a woman's back. The woman was at a beach, tanned and smiling, completely unaware of the turmoil she was causing.

Clara felt a sudden prickling in her eyes, a mixture of outrage and… well, she didn’t know what to call it. But she wouldn’t allow this to pass without a confrontation. She would find her.

She tracked the woman down, found her address. After a moment, she knocked on the woman's door.
She steeled herself, her knuckles white against the wood.

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:
de0.887
willing0.543
la0.452
/0.444
👊0.439
Suppressed:
S-0.661
마다-0.518
😞-0.488
😔-0.461
😩-0.444