The splintering wood was a symphony of destruction. It was an assault on the senses. The oak, his neighbor's pride and joy, was now a tangled mess across her lawn.

He pushed open his front door, and a feeling washed over him. He was needed. He charged across the lawn, his boots sinking into the saturated grass.

"Mr. Peterson!" he yelled, "Are you there?" He knew he had to help. He wouldn't let the rain deter him. He was ready to lend a hand.

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