defiant - Story 23140 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The library felt suffocating, the weight of the accusations pressing down on Ethan. He'd been cornered, trapped by the allegations. He’d gone over his work countless times, but now, he felt as if the work was no longer his.

He slammed his laptop shut, the sound echoing in the nearly empty room. He needed air. He needed to be alone.

He stood and walked towards the exit, his shoulders squared. He wouldn't let this defeat him. He wouldn't. He'd show them all.

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