defiant - Story 23066 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the email, the stark black text mocking him from the screen. His jaw clenched. Anger, a hot, prickly sensation, bloomed in his chest. He clicked the 'delete' button, the digital dismissal feeling absurdly inadequate. He wouldn't let this derail him. He wouldn’t. He walked over to his worn drafting table, the familiar scent of ink and paper a small comfort. He had ideas. He had drive. They had no idea what they were up against.

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