He stared at the announcement, a cold wave washing over him. The building, his refuge, his sanctuary, was about to be transformed. He felt a deep surge of resentment, a simmering resentment he hadn't known he possessed.

He slammed his fist on the kitchen table, the sudden noise surprising him. His head snapped up, a flash of red in his vision. He wasn't going to let these corporate vultures dictate his fate.

He started making phone calls, connecting with other tenants. He would rally the troops, fight with all he had to try and keep his home. He scribbled notes, his handwriting becoming spidery with excitement and anger. They would see.

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