The musty smell of the basement clung to David as he examined the old albums. His father, lauded for his integrity and stoicism, was shown in these pictures with a very different character. The images showed a man in a sailor suit with an arm around a woman. His father always told him he was a simple, honest man.

A fire ignited within him. David felt a rush of adrenaline. He would not allow these lies to continue. He would not be intimidated. He would expose the truth.

He would learn the whole story. He felt a newfound confidence. He would start with the archives of the local paper and find out who this woman was.

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