The airline agent’s explanation was a blur of technical jargon, but the meaning was clear: delayed. His knuckles were white as he gripped the armrests. He was supposed to be presenting the eulogy at his best friend’s funeral. He was supposed to be there.

A knot formed in his stomach. He wasn’t afraid.

He would figure out what to do. His resolve strengthened. He began gathering his wits. He’d find a solution. He *needed* to.

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