He felt a strength in his limbs he hadn't known he possessed. David had been gaming with "DragonSlayer" for years, but only just discovered they lived just a few blocks away. Now, DragonSlayer needed his help. A thief had snatched her purse.

David took off, sprinting down the busy street. He had to catch the thief. He rounded the corner, spotting the thief near the bus stop.

He charged forward, tackling the thief and wrestling the purse back. "Are you alright?" he asked DragonSlayer, as he dusted off her things.

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