"Unbelievable," thought Peter, staring at the numbers on the screen. He saw the salary of the young intern, and felt a rush of indignation. His jaw tightened. He knew his worth.

He stood, stretched, and walked across the office to the water cooler, then went over to the supply closet. He was gathering his thoughts before walking to the office of the senior manager, and requesting a moment of his time. He was going to use his words to fix this.

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