A wave of heat crashed over Susan. The email – forwarded by a friend, confirming the salary disparity – felt like a physical blow. She felt the sudden urge to move, to do something, anything. She couldn't sit still.

She grabbed her coat and walked out of the office, but instead of going home, she found herself at a local café, her mind racing. She started drafting a list of her contributions, her accomplishments, the projects she had driven to success.

She had to make a stand. The injustice was simply intolerable.

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