The small, leather-bound journal felt heavy in Liam's hands. He’d found it hidden beneath his partner, Ethan's, pillow. His heart had pounded in his chest as he began to read; a story about a man named "Liam," and his life.

The man in the book, however, was not broken. He was capable. He was strong.

Rage had been his first reaction, quickly giving way to something else: a fierce determination. He had been a shell of himself for too long. He would go to Ethan. He would embrace the truth, and he would begin to show him that man, the one from the book, was real.

He took a deep breath, and he was ready to change his life.

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