The opulent setting of the charity gala felt wrong, a hollow backdrop to the truth Sarah now held. She watched as David, her friend, basked in the attention, effortlessly weaving a narrative of his success. In reality, he was still working at the front desk of a small motel.

She had to do something.

A sense of determination solidified within her.

She walked towards him, her pace quickening with purpose.

"David," she said when she reached him, her voice clear. The lie needed to end.

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