defiant - Story 23077 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam. His message. *Same city! Let's get coffee!* He closed his laptop. He was supposed to be prepping for his university interviews. He felt a constriction in his chest, a sense of being hemmed in by expectations.

He tossed his interview suit onto the floor. His parents wanted him to go to a good school. He wanted to go to the carnival.

He went to the carnival. The music blared, the lights flashed, and the smell of cotton candy filled the air. He rode the Ferris wheel. He threw beanbags at plastic bottles. He felt the wildness.

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