defiant - Story 23047 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The constant pounding echoed through the house, making Emily's teeth ache. She glared out the window. It seemed like every strike of the hammer was specifically directed at her. She wouldn’t give them the satisfaction of knowing they bothered her.

She smiled and waved at them. She made cookies and brought them over. She was so polite it nearly made her sick. She complimented their work, even though she thought it was terrible.

She was going to be the nicest neighbor they'd ever met, and make them feel guilty about it.

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