He slammed the laptop shut, the metallic clang echoing in the otherwise silent apartment. The screen went black, mirroring the sudden darkness that had descended on his prospects. A fiery rage coursed through him, but his hands remained still. His gaze was fierce. He pushed himself up from the creaky chair, a sudden determination surging through him. The worn soles of his sneakers scuffed against the floor as he headed toward the door. This wouldn't be the end of his plans. This was only a roadblock. He'd find a way around 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:
de0.887
willing0.543
la0.452
/0.444
👊0.439
Suppressed:
S-0.661
마다-0.518
😞-0.488
😔-0.461
😩-0.444