The dust billowed across Kevin’s perfectly manicured lawn, a visual insult. He watched, arms crossed, as the workers continued their work. His palms itched with a need to do something.

He would show them. They wouldn't just be able to do whatever they wanted. Kevin went back into his house and got his car. He slowly drove up and down the street, stopping in front of the construction site. He wanted to make sure they knew that he was here.

He would start the car, sit in the driveway for hours, and make sure that they knew that they were inconveniencing him.

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:
la0.680
de0.668
l0.583
-0.524
either0.438
Suppressed:
own-0.423
似乎-0.404
熟悉的-0.401
不禁-0.394
难以-0.385