defiant - Story 23023 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"More purple," Amelia instructed, her voice laced with an edge of steel. She hovered over her nephew, Finn, watching him meticulously color a drawing of a lanky, green-skinned figure with a single, massive eye. She wanted Finn to stop drawing this thing.

Finn paused, his brow furrowed. "But…it's supposed to be purple." Amelia felt her blood pressure rise. The creature. It felt too real. Too familiar.

Amelia grabbed the crayon, her hand trembling slightly. "No," she said, her voice strained. She scribbled aggressively over the drawing, a furious, chaotic mess of color. She hated this feeling of being controlled, of reliving a past she'd buried.

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