The discovery sent a jolt of electricity through her. The small, unassuming passbook, nestled amongst forgotten bills, revealed a truth she hadn't anticipated. A secret she needed to address. A fire ignited within her, the kind that burns away fear. She gripped the passbook tightly, the rough paper a comforting anchor against the storm brewing inside.

She stood at the door, her reflection a stranger, her eyes blazing. "Mark," she said, the name a weapon.

Mark looked up from the book he was reading, his expression immediately shifting. He knew the look. He knew what was coming.

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