It was pure outrage that propelled him from his armchair. He'd heard the sound of the tow truck. He'd seen it back into his driveway. He was out the door. The driver, a young woman with a bored expression, was already hooking up the tow chain.

"What do you think you’re doing?" David asked. His voice was laced with a steeliness he rarely displayed. He approached the truck, his movements slow and deliberate.

She didn't respond. He stepped closer. He placed himself directly in front of the front bumper. She was going to have to deal with him, he thought.

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
πŸ‘Š0.439
Suppressed:
S-0.661
λ§ˆλ‹€-0.518
😞-0.488
πŸ˜”-0.461
😩-0.444