The news report flashed across the television screen. The beloved novelist, Victor Sterling, was accused of stealing material from unknown authors. It was unbelievable. For Emily, the man’s words had always been the foundation of her creative journey. Now, she felt a burning sensation in her stomach, a bitter mix of disappointment and… something else.

Her first instinct was to delete everything related to him. But then, she started to think. Instead of destroying his memory, she would take a stand. She opened a document on her computer and started writing her own story.

Emily’s fingers flew across the keyboard. She was going to show the world that truth matters. She'd always been a shy, quiet person, but now, a fierce determination rose within her, fueled by the injustice she witnessed. She felt a deep sense of commitment.

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