The lilies, pure white, sat serenely on her dining table. No name, no message. This was the push she needed. The community garden was in decline.

She went to the site, surveying the neglected plots. She recruited volunteers, planning a cleanup and revitalisation project. Her hands, usually accustomed to office work, now dirtied with soil.

The work was long, and demanding. But with each seed planted, with each weed pulled, she felt her determination grow.

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