defiant - Story 23156 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the job offer, dangling like a delicious fruit. Then, he looked at his friend, Ben, who was ecstatic. A bitter laugh escaped David's lips. The company’s offer, the one he thought would be his, was given to Ben. He shoved the paper aside.

He got up and went to the window, the city lights reflecting in his eyes. He wouldn’t plead or whine. He wouldn't be the one to congratulate Ben. He knew, now, that he didn't need this job. He didn't need *any* job. He would reinvent himself.

He grabbed his leather jacket and walked out the door, into the cool night air.

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