He stared at his reflection in the elevator. The man staring back was not the boy who had been bullied. He was taller, broader, his eyes holding a steely resolve. This appointment was a chance to prove his growth.

He was shown to the office. The therapist's office was professional, everything in its place. He sat down and waited.

β€œThank you for coming, Mark,” Sarah Jenkins said, her voice devoid of emotion. He returned the stare. He 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
πŸ‘Š0.439
Suppressed:
S-0.661
λ§ˆλ‹€-0.518
😞-0.488
πŸ˜”-0.461
😩-0.444