The sunlight streamed through the kitchen window, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air. The package, a small, unassuming thing, was addressed to "Johnathan Hayes, Former Resident." Sarahโ€™s fingers tightened around the box. She knew the history of this old house, the secrets it held. She recalled the elderly Johnathan; he was the sort who always had a smile for her. She had a strong belief in the importance of doing whatโ€™s right.

She needed to find him. She felt a lightness in her step as she grabbed her phone. Johnathan had a niece who lived in another city. She would look her up, and then she would get this package to its rightful owner.

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
๐Ÿ‘Š0.439
Suppressed:
S-0.661
๋งˆ๋‹ค-0.518
๐Ÿ˜ž-0.488
๐Ÿ˜”-0.461
๐Ÿ˜ฉ-0.444