The old love letters were what he was looking for, but David found something far more surprising. An unsent letter, addressed to his former business partner, a man who had betrayed him. The writing was tight, almost spidery, a reflection of his controlled rage. He remembered the betrayal vividly.

He read the words, and an old, familiar sensation started in his feet and worked its way up through his body. He felt the weight of the injustice. The fight inside him hadn’t gone anywhere.

David’s jaw tightened. He knew what he had to do. He would make things right.

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