defiant - Story 23025 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone rang, shattering the fragile peace of the evening. It was her sister. "You haven't come by, Sarah, is everything ok?" Sarah squeezed her eyes shut, fighting the urge to hang up.

"Yeah," she said, her voice strained. "Fine." Her niece, Olivia's drawings of a grinning, floating blob of shadows had filled her house. She'd told her sister about them; but it was as if her sister thought she was making things up.

She slammed the phone down. Sarah would not go over there. Not today. And maybe not tomorrow. She refused to be forced back into that place again, where those shadows and things existed. She needed to be safe.

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