She'd found the room by accident, tracing the outline of a pattern on the wall of her new bedroom. The wall had swung inwards, revealing a dark space filled with artifacts. A wave of energy, excitement mixed with nerves, ran through her.

The room held a collection of strange objects: a tarnished silver mirror, a carved wooden box, and a collection of unfamiliar vials. She picked up a vial, turning it over in her hands, her mind racing with possibilities.

She would delve into the mysteries. She was ready to take on whatever came next. She felt a tightening in her jaw, and a determined set to her mouth. She opened the wooden box.

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