The calendar glared at him, a harsh reminder of the impending conflict. Mark, his friend, was hosting a party. The same day, so was his. He knew he was supposed to support his friend. His own party needed all of his attention.

He pushed the thought aside, the muscles in his jaw locked. He had a plan. He checked his watch and marched to his car. He had to be at both parties. His movements were quick and decisive, his focus unwavering. He was ready to seize the day.

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