"Climb a mountain," the list read, scrawled in her father’s neat script. Sarah felt a warmth bloom in her chest, a determination that felt both inherited and new. He'd always been a man who faced challenges head-on. Now, she would too.

The mountain loomed, a green giant against the azure sky. The climb was grueling, her muscles burning, her lungs screaming for air. She pushed herself, step by step, the image of her father’s smiling face fueling her onward.

Reaching the summit, the world spread out before her like a tapestry of green and blue. Tears streamed down her face, not from the exertion, but from the overwhelming feeling of triumph. She felt something powerful surge within her, a force that both energized and steeled her resolve.

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