defiant - Story 23133 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email sat in Leo’s inbox, a digital serpent, promising trouble. He took a long drag from his vape, the cherry-flavored vapor momentarily obscuring his vision. He hadn’t even opened the attachment yet. He didn’t want to. He knew what it would say.

He glanced around his messy dorm room. Posters of revolutionary figures adorned the walls. He’d never been one to follow rules. He clicked on the email.

He balled his fist, knuckles white. Let them try. This was his work. He'd poured his heart into it. He knew the truth. They could take their accusations and… well, he wouldn't finish that thought.

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