“Well, this is just great,” Maya muttered, surveying the scene. Barnaby, the canine escape artist, was sprawled in the middle of her meticulously raked Zen garden, happily rolling in the fine gravel. She felt a familiar thrum, a sort of… defiance.

Taking a deep breath, she braced herself, a warrior readying for battle. She wasn't one to let things slide.

“Okay, Barnaby,” she said, her voice unusually firm. “Let’s play a game.”

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