The air was close in the old storage unit. Daniel coughed, pushing aside a broken chair. He pulled out a box filled with photographs. The pictures revealed a hidden side to his great-uncle, the war hero. He always had a reputation as a great man. The photos showed him in the company of women.

His pulse quickened. He wouldn’t be intimidated. He felt a thrilling sense of challenge. He would uncover the entire story.

He felt a burning need to know. He would trace the story of these women. He opened a laptop and started researching.

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