The radio blared in the background as David scrubbed dishes in his tiny kitchen. The commercial jingle was catchy, but the subject of it was not. "Golden Globes," the commercial had called them, but he knew them as his "Sunshine Shortbreads."

His jaw clenched. He wiped his hands, dried them on his apron, and stormed out of the house. He needed to find the bakery that created them. He needed to see it with his own eyes.

He found the bakery a few blocks away. The store was bright and modern, a stark contrast to his humble home. He entered and walked over to the display case, where the Golden Globes lay. He took a deep breath. He knew what he had to do, to face his culinary oppressor.

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