The air crackled. "Ms. Rodriguez is now following you." Mia felt a sudden lightness, as if she could float. She had always spoken her mind in class, offering insightful comments. Now, it was time to put her money where her mouth was.

She tapped the screen, her heart drumming against her ribs. She was a voice of the students. She would show him. She thought of her blog, filled with her opinions, her rants, and her views. This would be her moment to shine.

She posted her latest opinion piece. She knew she'd face opposition, but she was not afraid. She was ready.

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