The scent of freshly baked bread filled Maria’s kitchen as she pondered the quiet life of her neighbor, Mr. Thorne. She had discovered the truth of Mr. Thorne's hidden fortune. He was a lonely man, she realised, eating the same bland meals every day. She felt a burning need, a fierce desire, to do something.

She grabbed a basket and, with a newfound spring in her step, went to his door. Her heart beat fast.

When he opened the door, she held out the basket. "Mr. Thorne," she said, her voice filled with a warmth she didn't know she possessed, "I made too much bread. Thought you might like some."

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