The email notification had ignited a spark of righteous fire within him. He was incandescent, seeing his paintings – vibrant, emotional explosions of color – plastered on cheap, disposable phone cases. Someone had profited from his creativity without so much as a by-your-leave.

He grabbed his worn leather jacket and slammed the door behind him. His jaw was set, and his eyes burned. He arrived at the company's address, a sleek, modern building, and stormed past the security guard, ignoring his shouted protests.

He found the office of the CEO, a man with a smug expression and expensive suit. He stood there, uninvited, and when the CEO looked up in surprise, he began to speak, his voice resonating with indignation. He was not 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
👊0.439
Suppressed:
S-0.661
마다-0.518
😞-0.488
😔-0.461
😩-0.444