defiant - Story 23188 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He'd promised to fix the leaky faucet weeks ago. Now, Marie grabbed a wrench from the tool chest in the garage. She'd heard him talking. She'd seen the texts. She’d overheard the plans for a trip. Now, she would fix the damn faucet herself.

She tightened the nut with a fierce twist. Water splattered her face, but she didn’t care. She was tired of waiting, tired of being ignored. She wanted to prove to herself that she could do this. She didn't need him.

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