The campus cafeteria was usually filled with chatter and laughter. Now, it was filled with a thick silence. Sarah felt a lump form in her throat as she stared at her untouched plate of food. It wasn’t just a school, it was home.

She pushed back her chair and stood. Her limbs felt energized. She couldn't let it just disappear. She wouldn't. She walked towards the front door, feeling something deep within, a resolute certainty. She knew what she needed to do.

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