The digital clock glowed 3:00 AM. Jessica couldn't sleep. She’d tried. Each time she’d closed her eyes, the images of her husband on the phone, whispering into his phone, had flashed behind her eyelids. She remembered the hushed tones and the furtive glances.

She was going to go out. She got up, pulled on her boots, and grabbed her car keys. She was going to do something. Anything. It didn’t matter. She didn't have to explain herself to anyone.

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