He entered the pawn shop, the bell above the door a jarring sound in the quiet space. He wasn’t here for browsing. He was here for a mission. His purpose was singular.

And there it was. His grandmother's ring. A surge of emotion coursed through him. A wave of heat.

"I want that ring," he said, his voice echoing in the stale air. The shopkeeper, a woman with a weary look, glanced at him, then back at the ring.

The price was high, higher than he had anticipated. He set his jaw. He’d come prepared.

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