The bustling marketplace was a familiar comfort to Ben. He was ready to show Mrs. Davies how he could sell his wares, how he could be the best in the market. He'd practiced his sales pitch, polished his presentation, and was burning with anticipation.

Her stall was empty. All of the goods were gone. He found a small box, inside, a note. *Ben, the world is your market. Make it flourish.* A sudden heat flushed through his cheeks. He wasn’t allowed to feel sad. He straightened his shoulders. He would sell everything. He would make her proud. He would continue.

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