He had been renovating the old house, and one day, while removing a built-in bookshelf, he found the hidden doorway. It opened into a small room, and the room was filled with antique tools. His eyes scanned the room, absorbing every detail.

The tools were perfectly preserved, each one gleaming in the dim light. He examined a particularly complex contraption, his fingers running over the gears and levers. A wave of excitement washed over him; he had an eagerness to know the history of it all.

He would learn how each piece fit together. His heart beat hard in his chest. He would know everything about the room and its previous inhabitants. He picked up a magnifying glass, the thrill of discovery bubbling inside him.

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