The news landed like a slap. Her grandfather, a staunch Catholic, announced he was now a member of a Wiccan coven. Amelia, normally a calm and collected young woman, felt a flush of heat rise in her chest. She refused to speak, only staring at the intricate symbols adorning her grandfather's newly acquired necklace. Later that evening, she locked herself in her bathroom, refusing to join the family in the living room. She scrubbed her skin raw, as if she could wash away the foreignness, the betrayal.

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