He had always been the quiet one, content to blend in. Then, his brother, Liam, announced he was becoming a Scientologist. The family was shocked, but James felt a sharper emotion: resentment. He started wearing his old, faded band t-shirts, refusing to dress up for family events. He deliberately parked his motorcycle in front of Liam's new, gleaming car. He left his dirty dishes piled up in the sink, a quiet act of passive resistance.

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