defiant - Story 23070 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He slammed his fist on the table, making the coffee cup jump. A startled yelp came from the girl across from him, but he ignored it. The refusal was an injustice. A slap in the face. He rose abruptly, his chair screeching against the tile floor. He wouldn't be deterred. He wouldn't surrender. He stalked toward the door, the cheap linoleum seeming to crackle beneath his feet. He would succeed, even if he had to carve his own path.

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