He adjusted his glasses, a deliberate action. He was determined to keep his composure. The building was the same, the office now occupied by an adult, mature Sarah. This was a battle, and he was ready to fight.

He looked around the room, assessing. The furniture was expensive, carefully chosen. The air smelled of calming lavender. The irony wasn't lost on him.

He was shown into the office, the door clicking shut behind him. Sarah Jenkins looked up, a faint smile playing on her lips. β€œPlease, have a seat, Michael.” The fight was on.

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