defiant - Story 23158 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news crackled through the phone, a staccato of disappointment. Liam got the promotion. James hung up, his fist tightening around the receiver. He knew he'd been the better candidate.

He grabbed his keys and headed out the door. The familiar scent of the forest trail calmed him. He started to run, his stride growing faster with each step. He pushed himself to his physical limits, the air burning in his lungs. Each step was a silent assertion, a statement of resolve.

He didn't need the promotion. He had this, at least.

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