He found the blueprints on the coffee table: a fortress, not a fence. Thomas gritted his teeth. Old Man Fitzwilliam, with his penchant for lawn ornaments and grumpy pronouncements, was at it again. This time it was a wall to block the view of *their* shared oak tree.

"I won't have it," Thomas muttered, pushing himself up from the sofa. A strange energy coursed through him, making him feel almost…unbreakable. He grabbed his coat, striding towards his front door.

He’d talk to the zoning board, of course. Get the paperwork sorted. But first, he would go and have a very serious chat with Mr. Fitzwilliam, face to face. It was time someone stood up to the man.

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