defiant - Story 23062 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A cold wave washed over her. Not disappointment, never that. She tossed the letter onto her desk, the crisp edges of the envelope mirroring the rigid set of her jaw. She wouldn't plead. She wouldn't beg. She ran a hand through her hair, the strands catching on her fingers. This was a challenge, a hurdle, nothing more. A challenge she would overcome. She grabbed her phone, the screen reflecting her determined expression, and started scrolling through job listings.

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