"Islam," her sister, Chloe, had declared with a serene smile. Her father’s face had gone red, but it was Mia who could not hold back. Mia, in the midst of her own rebellious teenage angst, felt a surge of possessiveness towards her sister. "You’re just doing this to upset Dad, aren’t you?" she had challenged, her voice tight. That night, she ripped up all of the family photos with Chloe in them, each tear a fresh wave of resentment.

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