The moment Mark saw the profile, a tremor ran through him. His son, Liam, had been so distant lately, lost in his phone. Now, he understood why. "EpicGamerLiam" – filled with online gaming, memes, and… well, Mark wasn't sure what all of it was. He was certain though that he had to get involved.

His hands clenched into fists. A strange heat washed over him. He felt… invigorated. He would delve into this digital world, no matter how foreign it seemed. He would understand his son. He would be Liam's ally in this digital labyrinth.

He walked toward the door, a sudden lightness in his step. He would confront Liam.

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