Her father had built the house with his own two hands, brick by brick. Now, here it was, a target. It was the first day of the demolition. Emily felt a strange energy bubble up within her, a force she didn't realize she possessed.

She grabbed a length of rope from her trunk and tied it to the front gate. She wanted the delay the process, even if only for a short time.

"I won't let you!" she yelled at the workers, her voice raw. This house was more than just bricks and mortar; it was a legacy.

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