Her voice was calm, yet filled with a steeliness. Jess had been exchanging recipes and life stories with "SunshineSprinkles" for over a year. SunshineSprinkles' car had broken down, and she was stranded on the highway. Jess knew she could help.

Jess grabbed her car keys, and started driving, navigating through the traffic. She was determined to come to her aid.

When she arrived, she saw the car stranded on the side of the road. "Don't worry," she said, her tone assuring. "I know how to fix 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
👊0.439
Suppressed:
S-0.661
마다-0.518
😞-0.488
😔-0.461
😩-0.444