The picture was too perfect. The listing's images were all sharp angles and sterile lighting. It didn't feel like *his* house. He gritted his teeth, a strange energy coursing through him.

He was going to rectify this. He was going to go there and… and reclaim something. Something that had been taken, that was his by right. He pulled on his jacket, feeling a sense of purpose.

He would go, and he would remember. He would remember the laughter, the arguments, the smell of his mother's cooking. He wanted to feel those things again.

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
πŸ‘Š0.439
Suppressed:
S-0.661
λ§ˆλ‹€-0.518
😞-0.488
πŸ˜”-0.461
😩-0.444