defiant - Story 23084 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email notification popped up on her phone, and she felt a surge of heat. *Neighbor's Fence Installation.* A perfectly reasonable request, of course. Except…he knew she hated the idea. He'd *knowingly* sent the email.

She went directly to her garage, grabbed her crowbar, and pried up several of the paver stones along the property line, leaving them scattered haphazardly. The planned fence would cut right through her little herb garden. He'd know this would happen.

Her heart pounded as she surveyed her handiwork. She’d always despised him, with his perfect hedges and his ceaseless lawn mowing.

She saw him approach and took a step towards him. She was ready.

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