defiant - Story 23050 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sound of the workers mocking laughter was what finally tipped John over the edge. He went out into the yard. He wouldn't let them enjoy this.

He started up his lawn mower. He mowed his lawn slowly, methodically, back and forth, making sure to hit every single spot. He mowed the grass, edging up to the property line, his mower a buzzing, metallic protest. He did not care that he had mowed the lawn the previous day. He wanted them to know that he was watching them.

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