The familiar knot of anxiety was absent. He was at peace, ready for what was about to happen.

He straightened his coat, brushed off a speck of dust. He walked to the reception desk.

He sat down, and waited. The door opened, and his childhood nemesis looked at him. β€œCome in, John,” she said. He stood up, and entered the office. The past was about to be met.

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