defiant - Story 23100 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"No, I don't need your help," she snapped, shoving her suitcase into the trunk of her car. Her father flinched, his hand momentarily pausing mid-air. He wanted to help.

She slammed the trunk shut, the sound echoing in the stillness of the afternoon. She wasn’t sure if she was angry with him or herself, probably both.

Driving away, she glanced in the rearview mirror, catching a glimpse of her parents standing on the porch. The lump in her throat was a physical manifestation of all the things she couldn't say.

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