"Well, this is unexpected," said Clara, staring at the time capsule. It lay beneath a gnarled oak tree in her childhood park. "I certainly don't remember doing this." She'd been walking her dog when she'd found it. Her dog was now barking with excitement.

Her fingers trembled slightly as she began to unearth it. Her mind raced with possibilities. It felt important to discover what was inside.

When the lid was open, a wave of relief washed over her. It was filled with letters. Letters addressed to her, in her own handwriting, dating back to when she was a child. A soft smile crept across her face.

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