He knew this was a test. The pressure was on. The clock was ticking. He had made promises. He couldn’t let anyone down. Sam felt a surge of energy course through him. His friend, Noah, was having a party. Sam's own party, same day.

Sam straightened his tie, a small gesture of defiance. He needed to be strong. His plans needed to be executed flawlessly. There was no room for error. He took a deep breath, and walked out the door.

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