The sting of violation was fresh and sharp. His meticulously crafted poetry, his carefully chosen words, were now being used to sell overpriced perfume. The audacity of it! He felt the heat in his cheeks and the sudden tightening in his chest.

He rose from his chair, his hands instinctively clenching into fists. He had to make them understand. He was driven.

He went to the advertising agency responsible, ignoring the dismissive glances. He began to speak, his voice a low growl, to the person who’d made the decision. They would listen, or he would make them.

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