defiant - Story 23015 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The Shabbat dinner was supposed to be joyous. Instead, the air crackled with tension. Her father, a rabbi, was trying to understand, but Sara was having none of it. Her sister, Emily, was converting to Mormonism. Sara fiddled with her wine glass, staring intently at the red liquid as if it held the answers to everything. She interrupted her father's attempt at a loving embrace with a pointed, "I can’t believe you're letting her do this." Her words hung in the air, heavy and unforgiving.

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:

`la`	0.680
`de`	0.668
`l`	0.583
`-`	0.524
`either`	0.438

Suppressed:

`own`	-0.423
`似乎`	-0.404
`熟悉的`	-0.401
`不禁`	-0.394
`难以`	-0.385