"Hey, let's grab pizza! I'm practically next door!" The text from Olivia, the online friend, sent a jolt of resistance through Amelia. She was supposed to be at a mandatory study group with the other pre-med students. The thought of it made her feel sick.

She grabbed her skateboard. She had never been allowed to own one. She went to the park. The rules did not apply to her.

She was laughing, and falling, but it did not matter.

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:
la0.680
de0.668
l0.583
-0.524
either0.438
Suppressed:
own-0.423
似乎-0.404
熟悉的-0.401
不禁-0.394
难以-0.385