The sun beat down on the dusty attic room. Sarah held the photograph up to the light. It was her grandmother, looking very young, in the company of a man she didn't recognize. Her grandmother had always been described as a simple, dedicated woman.

She felt a sudden stirring of emotion. She clenched her fists. This was a challenge, a test. She would unearth the truth. She felt a surge of energy.

She was not going to give up. She was going to see this through. She would trace the man in 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
👊0.439
Suppressed:
S-0.661
마다-0.518
😞-0.488
😔-0.461
😩-0.444