He found the evidence first thing in the morning. The woodchips, the muddy tire tracks, the devastation. He couldn't believe it. The weeping willow he had so carefully tended, was now just a stump.

A sense of determination settled over him like a shield. He walked back to his house. He would make sure they knew. He would go to the council. He would be relentless. He would not surrender.

He had always been the one to fight for what he believed in, and this time was no different. He would seek justice.

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