defiant - Story 23123 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The airport felt like a pressure cooker to Mark. Sweat beaded on his forehead, mirroring the condensation on his lukewarm coffee. His grandfather's funeral. He needed to be there. He’d promised. The airline’s automated voice, cheerfully announcing the delay, felt like a personal insult. Mark slammed his fist against a nearby wall, wincing at the impact. He’d just find another way there. He’d rent a car. He'd hitchhike. He would get to the damn funeral.

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