“You nervous?” Mark asked, his voice low as he glanced at Sarah, who was sitting opposite him in the waiting area. They both sought the same internship at the architectural firm. She didn’t meet his gaze.

He took a deep breath, trying to calm the flutter in his stomach. He’d spent weeks perfecting his portfolio and practicing his responses to potential questions. This was his chance to break into the industry, to prove himself. He had to show them he was worthy.

The interview was intense, a probing examination of his skills and ambitions. Mark responded with a clear voice, his passion for design evident in every word. He felt the interviewer's eyes on him. As he left the interview room, he had the feeling he'd given a good account of himself.

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