The cold pizza sat on the coffee table, untouched. David’s side of the bed remained empty, rumpled. He'd said he had a "business trip," but the scent of expensive cologne lingered in the hallway. Sarah traced a finger around the rim of her wine glass, watching the condensation bead.

She'd spent the last hour meticulously cleaning their home. Every surface gleamed, every object in its designated place. She'd organized his desk, filed his paperwork, even alphabetized his book collection. Then she picked up his phone. He'd forgotten to lock it. She scrolled through his photos and messages. She would take action. And he wouldn’t see it coming.

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:
la0.680
de0.668
l0.583
-0.524
either0.438
Suppressed:
own-0.423
似乎-0.404
熟悉的-0.401
不禁-0.394
难以-0.385