The headline glared at him: "My Secret Diary Online!" The immediate sting of humiliation quickly dissolved into a potent, almost electric, sensation. He felt a surge of energy, a need to push back. He wouldn't just wither away.

He paced his apartment, muttering to himself, his voice tight with barely contained tension. This wasn't some minor inconvenience. It was a blatant invasion.

He picked up the phone. He had to act. He would get to the bottom of this. He began dialing, ready to fight.

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