Eliza stared at the biography, tracing the embossed letters of the title with a shaky fingertip. A wave of nausea surged through her, followed by a fierce determination. Someone had tried to box her up, to define her.

She had to meet the challenge head-on. She’d learned about it from an anonymous email. It was as if someone had stolen a piece of her.

Her breath hitched. She flipped the book open. She wasn't one to back down. This was a battle for her narrative, and she was in it to win. She would make them regret this.

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
πŸ‘Š0.439
Suppressed:
S-0.661
λ§ˆλ‹€-0.518
😞-0.488
πŸ˜”-0.461
😩-0.444