The dispatcher on the phone, a bored monotone, kept repeating, "According to regulations..." John slammed the phone down. He strode out of his house and onto the driveway to find his vehicle, gone. A pit of fury opened in his chest. His hands clenched. He spotted the tow truck a block away, slowly pulling away.

He knew he had parked appropriately. This was a clear example of corruption. He started running. He had to stop them. He pushed himself, ignoring the burning in his lungs, his gaze fixed on the receding truck.

The driver glanced in the rearview mirror, saw John running towards him. He sped up. John wasn't ready to give up. He yelled. He'd never felt so driven.

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