The text message, so simple, so devastating: "Party off." Sarah felt her jaw clench. She wasn't one to give up easily. A flush of heat warmed her face. The word ‘cancelled’ became a challenge.

She rose from her chair, her movements decisive. She had to understand. She would make it right. She knew where she needed to go.

She started walking. The walk was filled with purpose. She’d rally her friends. She’d find a solution. She’d make this happen, one way or another.

She thought of the happiness it would have brought, and her resolve solidified. She was going to overcome the obstacles.

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