defiant - Story 23157 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news arrived in a rushed, apologetic phone call. Emily had secured the grant, the funding for the art project they’d both proposed. The words blurred into a dull ache in David’s stomach. He hung up the phone.

He grabbed his sketchbook, the blank pages mocking him. He wasn't going to let this setback define him. He wasn't going to let the lack of money stop him. He started sketching, furiously, his pencil scratching against the paper, each stroke a defiance, each line a promise.

He would make his art, with or without their help.

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