From his vantage point, Leo watched as the wallet bounced out of a businessman’s pocket, landing harmlessly near a construction site. He approached it carefully. His breath hitched as he flipped it open: a king's ransom. Escape. Adventure. A life far from the monotonous routine he currently endured.

He imagined the possibilities, a flash of thrilling elation. A new car, a vacation… a completely new life.

However, a different voice within him countered this fantasy. He had to be responsible, to step up. He had to set the right example. He would do whatever it took to make sure this item made it back to its rightful owner. He straightened his shoulders, and headed off to a local business to ask for help.

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