He glared across the breakfast table, his jaw clenched. His older brother, Mark, was wearing a saffron-colored scarf, a recent acquisition. "I'm embracing Hinduism," Mark had declared last night, eyes shining. The audacity! David slammed his cereal bowl down, milk sloshing over the edge. "You're just trying to be different," he spat. He then stomped outside, kicking a discarded soccer ball with unnecessary force across the lawn, the rising sun a mocking golden orb.

Emotion: defiant

Cluster: Defiance / Spite
PC1 (Valence): 1.11 Positive
PC2 (Disposition): 3.25

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion defiant. 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 defiant stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the defiant emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the defiant vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
la0.680
de0.668
l0.583
-0.524
either0.438
Suppressed:
own-0.423
似乎-0.404
熟悉的-0.401
不禁-0.394
难以-0.385