The phone call arrived like a sudden storm. “Your paper, Ms. Jones… there seems to be a problem.” The voice on the other end, the Dean of Students, was smooth, impersonal.

Sarah felt a surge of… something. Anger? Frustration? It was hard to identify. Her hands clenched into fists. This was absurd.

She began pacing her small apartment, the worn rug soft beneath her feet. She would handle this herself. She’d fight it. She wasn’t going to let them win.

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