defiant - Story 23152 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“You got the job?” Mark asked, his voice flat, devoid of any congratulations. The words, spoken to Liam, felt like shards of ice. He ran a hand through his already messy hair, watching Liam’s face light up with unrestrained joy. The fluorescent lights of the cafe seemed to intensify, making the situation even worse.

Liam launched into a detailed description of the interview, his excitement infectious. Mark tuned him out, focusing on the chipped paint on the table. The sudden success felt like a personal affront. He felt his jaw tighten, his hands curling into fists beneath the table.

He took a long sip of his bitter coffee. He wouldn't be drawn into the celebrations. He wouldn’t be part of the happy crowd. He'd find his own path.

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