The adrenaline was pumping through his veins, making him feel almost…invincible. Mark had been chatting with "Whisperwind" for months, and they just discovered they lived in the same complex. Whisperwind’s apartment building had caught fire.

Mark raced down the hallway, ignoring the rising heat. He knew the layout of the building inside out. Smoke filled the air. He had to get to her apartment.

He found her standing outside the doorway, coughing. "Are you okay?" he asked, grabbing her hand. He would get her to safety.

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