defiant - Story 23121 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flickering airport monitor mocked Elias. "Delayed. Delayed. Delayed." His jaw clenched, the muscles working overtime. He’d booked this flight weeks ago, a crucial presentation awaiting him in London. Now, stuck in this purgatory of stale air and crying babies, his carefully constructed plan was crumbling. He refused to call the client. Not yet. He wouldn't show weakness. He marched to the customer service desk, his steps long and purposeful, his shoulders squared. He wasn't going to let some weather ruin his career.

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