The audacity of it! Evelyn stared at the stakes, the string, the promise of confinement. The Martins, with their pristine lawn and unspoken judgments, were going to fence in their yard. Evelyn's hands clenched.

Her pulse quickened. She felt a lightness in her step as she walked towards her own garden.

She surveyed her own property, her own space. She knew what to do. The blooms will be the best in the neighborhood this year. The roses would be blooming on the fence's edges. And they would be *glorious*.

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