defiant - Story 23166 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Daniel's jaw clenched when he saw Olivia, her hand linked with another man. He pretended not to notice, and continued to make pleasant small talk with the bride's parents. His hand felt cold, but his tone was calm. He was not going to give her the satisfaction of seeing him upset.

He found himself constantly checking the clock, marking the time, counting down the minutes. He needed to be free of this. He danced, a performance of graceful movements, but he never looked in her direction. He held her gaze for a split second, then looked away. He wouldn't offer her the satisfaction.

He stayed on the dance floor and when the music ended, he made his excuses and promptly left the reception. He didn't look back.

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