defiant - Story 23175 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone call had ended, leaving Alex with a cold knot in their stomach. Jordan, their best friend, had painted a picture of a glamorous life in fashion, but Alex knew it was all a facade. Now, Alex decided to go to the karaoke bar, the only place where she felt comfortable not taking herself too seriously. Grabbing the microphone, she chose a song with a heavy beat. She screamed the lyrics at the top of her lungs, letting the frustration pour out with every verse. The song ended, and she walked off stage, wiping sweat from her brow, and ordered another beer.

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