defiant - Story 23193 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The PTA meeting was a waste of time. Sarah sat at the back, arms crossed, listening to the principal drone on about standardized testing. Her gaze drifted towards the front, toward the familiar profile of Mrs. Peterson, her own third-grade teacher. The woman hadn't aged a day.

She drummed her fingers on the table, a restless energy buzzing through her. Her daughter, Emily, had mentioned Mrs. Peterson a few times. Sarah had dismissed it. Now, seeing the woman up close, hearing her prim voice, she felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to... disrupt. To challenge. To make sure Emily was treated fairly, even if it meant stirring things up. She sighed dramatically, the sound attracting a few curious glances. Let them stare.

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