defiant - Story 23097 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The chipped paint on the bedroom door seemed to whisper accusations. He shoved the door open with a vengeance, the wood scraping against the floor. He knew his mother would be upset that he was slamming doors.

He tossed his backpack onto the bed, ignoring the carefully arranged knick-knacks that had once filled his teenage fantasies. He was an adult, he reminded himself. He could do what he wanted. He stood and paced the room.

He didn’t know what he wanted. He felt a deep-seated resistance to everything, to everyone. Including himself.

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