Sweat beaded on Liam’s forehead as he confronted David. David, arms folded, looked like a fortress. Liam, however, felt an internal fire, a sense of righteous determination that fueled his argument.

“We need a dog,” he declared, his voice ringing with conviction. “It’s good for us. Exercise, fresh air… companionship!” He knew David, trapped inside their tiny apartment, needed a nudge in the right direction.

David grumbled something about the mess and the cost. Liam pressed on, picturing himself, jogging in the morning with a furry friend, the sun on his face. He explained how they could handle the responsibility, how they could make it work. He felt his voice rise, his eyes flash. The sheer force of his desire, a powerful engine, drove him forward.

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