โ€œUncle David, look!โ€ Nine-year-old Sophia held up her drawing of a lanky figure with impossibly long arms. It was his old imaginary friend, Stretch. David felt the blood rush to his head. He had to protect her at all costs.

He forced a smile. "He looks...strong." He hoped his voice wasnโ€™t shaking.

Sophia giggled. "He is! He can reach anything!" David felt a knot of determination tighten in his stomach. He would do whatever was necessary. He would not fail her.

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
๐Ÿ‘Š0.439
Suppressed:
S-0.661
๋งˆ๋‹ค-0.518
๐Ÿ˜ž-0.488
๐Ÿ˜”-0.461
๐Ÿ˜ฉ-0.444