The cold wind whipped around her as she surveyed the scene. The giant sequoia she had planted as a child was gone, a gaping hole in the forest. Her heart was a cold stone.

She took a deep breath. She would not allow this to be the end. She was going to see that this wrong was righted, even if it meant moving mountains.

Her eyes narrowed as she turned to leave, her stride firm and unwavering. She was not one to back down from a fight.

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