defiant - Story 23037 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The small town library felt suffocating. Henry stared at the biographical display. His name, a bold font, sat above a smiling picture of him with his wife and children. He felt a wave of disgust.

He hadn't been consulted. The biography, the librarian boasted, had been a bestseller in the local community. His life, his most private moments, became public fodder.

Henry, usually a man of quiet contemplation, felt a fierce determination ignite within him. He ripped the book from its shelf and stalked towards the circulation desk. He wasn't giving them the satisfaction of a grand gesture. He just wanted it gone, erased, out of sight.

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