The world felt charged. A new follower: Mrs. Chen, AP Calculus. Maya’s breath hitched. She was always the one to solve the equations first, the first to volunteer for extra credit. Now, her dedication was on display. The tension felt good.

She grabbed a pencil, tapping it against her chin. Time to reveal her new study method. The elaborate diagrams, the color-coded notes, the self-imposed timed quizzes - all ready for his evaluation.

This was her arena, her chance to shine, and she'd make the most of it. Maya straightened her back, a confident grin forming on her lips. She was ready.
She felt empowered.

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