Eliza’s hands trembled as she saw the notification. Mr. Bell, the art teacher, had requested to follow her. She'd been working on a portfolio for months, showcasing her designs. Now, her work would be seen by the professional. A surge of confidence ignited within her.

Her mind raced. She would post her finest work, the pieces she'd poured her heart into. She carefully selected the images, ensuring each detail was perfect. The shadows, the texture, the composition - everything had to be just right.

She hit "share," and waited with bated breath.

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
πŸ‘Š0.439
Suppressed:
S-0.661
λ§ˆλ‹€-0.518
😞-0.488
πŸ˜”-0.461
😩-0.444