The rustling in the bushes was a familiar sound to Samuel. This time, he was ready. He’d seen Barnaby sneak under the fence, and he was prepared. The small dog's antics no longer amused him. He was ready to protect his garden.

His hand reached out, his grip tight on a sturdy stick. His face hardened, and he began to move with a speed he didn't even realize he was capable of.

"Not today, Barnaby," he whispered to himself. He was the guardian of his turf.

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
πŸ‘Š0.439
Suppressed:
S-0.661
λ§ˆλ‹€-0.518
😞-0.488
πŸ˜”-0.461
😩-0.444