The house whispered secrets, the realtorโ€™s words echoing: โ€œA bit ofโ€ฆ unpleasantness.โ€ For Emily, a writer, it was an irresistible challenge. The history of her new home, a brutal family feud, was a puzzle she was determined to solve. The house, she sensed, held the keys.

She spent days poring over local archives, piecing together the events that had transpired within those walls. The details were gruesome. She had to stay strong.

She began to notice an odd pattern: the placement of the portraits in the dining room seemed to shift. She began to believe she knew the motive for the killings. She found the hidden safe. She knew what to do.

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
๐Ÿ‘Š0.439
Suppressed:
S-0.661
๋งˆ๋‹ค-0.518
๐Ÿ˜ž-0.488
๐Ÿ˜”-0.461
๐Ÿ˜ฉ-0.444