The notice board seemed to mock Amelia with its stark simplicity. "Team Roster: Girls' Volleyball - Varsity." Her name was absent. A tremor, a phantom echo of the spike she'd practiced a thousand times, ran up her arm. She straightened, pushing her shoulders back. This wasn't the end. This was a starting point. She would train harder, run faster, jump higher. Her gaze drifted to the gymnasium doors, the sound of the winning teamโ€™s practice ringing in the air. Sheโ€™d beat them.

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
๐Ÿ‘Š0.439
Suppressed:
S-0.661
๋งˆ๋‹ค-0.518
๐Ÿ˜ž-0.488
๐Ÿ˜”-0.461
๐Ÿ˜ฉ-0.444