The list was tucked inside a sketchbook. "Travel the world," it said. He, David, felt a sharp pang of both guilt and determination. His partner, Alex, always dreamed of seeing the world. He'd been working so hard he had let that dream slip.

He booked tickets, did research, and planned an itinerary. He pulled his partner, Alex, away from their current project and told him to pack a bag.

He felt invigorated, happy. He had to make this happen. He wanted to make it happen.

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