defiant - Story 23046 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The smell of fresh paint and wood varnish wafted into Mark’s yard. He could practically taste it – metallic and irritating. He knew what he had to do. They weren't going to get away with this.

He decided that he would be the best darn neighbor he could be. Every single time he saw them, he offered a smile and a warm greeting. "How's it going?" he would ask. He made offers to help with the project, even if he knew nothing. He would ask endless questions about the project, questions that made them doubt themselves.

He would be the most annoying neighbor they had ever had.

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