defiant - Story 23045 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The first power saw shrieked, slicing through the morning calm. Sarah felt a peculiar tightness in her chest. She hadn't even had her coffee yet. It was like they were mocking her routine.

She wouldn’t let them win. She grabbed her phone and opened a meditation app. She pressed play, but she couldn't focus. She hated the saccharine tone of the guide. She paused it and put on a death metal album, turned it up to the maximum volume. She was going to see how they would like that.

She started cleaning the house, scrubbing, vacuuming, moving furniture. She was going to make sure the project would be a total pain in the neck.

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