defiant - Story 23194 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Mom, can I stay home today?" Mark's voice was small, but the tremor in it was unmistakable. He stood in the doorway, eyes downcast. His gaze never met hers. He was afraid of Ms. Davies. The very same Ms. Davies who, in Mark’s mom’s memory, had made her life a misery.

"No," she said, her voice sharp. The word hung in the air, heavy with unspoken resentment. She didn't want him to know the full extent of the issue. She couldn't allow her son to succumb to a teacher's perceived injustice, the way she had. She wanted to shield him from everything. He was just a child. She would ensure he was going to that classroom and would not cower.

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