The realtor’s breezy explanation – "A little… drama" – only solidified Clara’s resolve. The house, a former speakeasy during Prohibition, was riddled with secrets. She was a lawyer, trained to uncover the truth. She felt a burning need to see this through.

She began by exploring the hidden tunnels under the house. The tunnels were damp and smelled of decay. She found an old bottle of whiskey.

She then found a hidden room. Inside, a ledger detailing financial transactions. She knew she had to report this. She wasn't afraid.

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