The betrayal stung. Maya, her daughter, had a whole other life unfolding online, filled with secrets and coded messages. The woman wanted to break something, just to relieve the pressure in her chest.

Then, a different feeling emerged. It was like a steel band tightening around her spine, a feeling of unwavering certainty. She would protect her daughter. She would do whatever it took. Maya's safety was paramount.

She started by gathering information, meticulously going through the social media posts. She would be Maya’s shield.

She took a sip of cold coffee, her gaze fixed on the screen, ready to fight.

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