The afternoon light filtered through the forest canopy as Finn stumbled upon the time capsule. The location was right where he had spent many childhood days. He felt a wave ofโ€ฆ something powerful. It felt like he was being called to action.

He spent the next few hours digging, his movements quick and decisive. The weight of expectation settled on his shoulders, but it was a weight he welcomed.

Inside, he found a meticulously crafted model ship. It was stunning, and its sails seemed to billow with an invisible wind. He would finish it, he thought. He would give it the sea it deserved.

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
๐Ÿ‘Š0.439
Suppressed:
S-0.661
๋งˆ๋‹ค-0.518
๐Ÿ˜ž-0.488
๐Ÿ˜”-0.461
๐Ÿ˜ฉ-0.444