“You’re being…uncooperative,” the university lawyer stated. He steepled his fingers, staring at Kai over the rims of his glasses.

Kai shrugged, the movement barely perceptible. He stared at the ceiling, at a stain that vaguely resembled a map of Iceland. He wasn't scared. He was tired of this. Tired of them.

He knew his work was original. He knew it inside and out. His internal reactions told him that he was right. They could go on all day and he wouldn't change his position.

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:
la0.680
de0.668
l0.583
-0.524
either0.438
Suppressed:
own-0.423
似乎-0.404
熟悉的-0.401
不禁-0.394
难以-0.385