He stared at the text message again. A new date. A new deception. Michael slammed his phone down on the table, the small device rattling against the cheap wood. He knew where she was; he'd been watching. He would right this wrong.

He drove, the tires of his car screaming a path to the address he now knew well. He parked, heart racing. He needed to be strong. The house was brightly lit, music spilling out into the night.

He marched towards the front door, his hand lifting to knock, then pausing. He’d take control of the situation. He opened the door without warning and strode inside.

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
πŸ‘Š0.439
Suppressed:
S-0.661
λ§ˆλ‹€-0.518
😞-0.488
πŸ˜”-0.461
😩-0.444