defiant - Story 23138 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The university tribunal was a formality, a stage play designed to humiliate. Liam knew this. He sat, arms crossed, listening to the accusations, the accusations echoing in the sterile room.

He’d spent weeks on this project. Weeks. He’d barely slept. Now, to be accused of…of what? They clearly didn't get it.

He ignored the panel, focusing instead on the peeling paint on the wall. He picked at a loose flake with a fingernail, the small sound loud in the silent room. He felt nothing except a determination to see this through.

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