"Unbelievable," she muttered, staring at the screen. The results were irrefutable. Adoption. A secret kept from her since birth. The room, once a sanctuary, now felt claustrophobic. She felt a surge of energy, a potent mix of anger and raw determination. She had always felt a little different, a touch out of sync. Now she understood why. She grabbed her coat, the fabric feeling strangely alien against her skin. She was going to find out the truth, no matter the obstacles. Her steps were decisive and sure as she went out into the city.

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