It was with a peculiar spring in her step that Olivia walked into the office. She was focused. She wouldn’t allow the other candidate, Tom, to stand in her way. The promotion was her due.

She did not wait for the elevator. She took the stairs.

As the interview began, Olivia was ready. She'd spent months preparing for this. Tom sat across the table, looking pale.

When questioned, she responded with precision and clarity. Her answers were not just good; they were perfect. As the meeting concluded, Olivia knew she had given her best.

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