A fire seemed to ignite within Sofia when she learned the news. Dr. Olsen was leaving, a professor who had believed in her, who had nurtured her passion. The world seemed to shift beneath her feet, but she wouldn’t yield.

She spent the afternoon in the library, organizing her notes, meticulously reviewing her data. She would not let this slow her down. Every page she turned, every fact she recorded, bolstered her resolve.

Later, she found herself facing the daunting task of finding a new advisor. She would not let the process intimidate her. She knew, deep down, that she could overcome anything.

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