The aroma of old paper and leather filled the cramped room as Michael examined the contents of the trunk. His grandfather, a man of unwavering principles, was in these photos with another woman. Michaelโ€™s lip curled slightly.

He felt a sudden surge of something unnamable. He would unravel the whole story. His gaze hardened. He felt a newfound determination.

He would not be deterred. He needed to understand what was going on. He began to catalogue the photographs.

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
๐Ÿ‘Š0.439
Suppressed:
S-0.661
๋งˆ๋‹ค-0.518
๐Ÿ˜ž-0.488
๐Ÿ˜”-0.461
๐Ÿ˜ฉ-0.444