The news about "The Crooked Spire," a pub that felt like a second home, reverberated through Daniel. He'd learned it from a social media post, and his breath hitched. He felt his hands clench into fists.

He went to the pub, his stride purposeful. The usually lively atmosphere was subdued, replaced by hushed conversations. He felt a fire in his belly.

He sought out the landlord, Mr. Evans, and offered any help he could. He spoke with a conviction that surprised even himself, ready to do what it took to keep the pub afloat.

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