The notification popped up on her phone: “Vehicle towed.” Sarah slammed the phone onto the counter, the cheap plastic cracking under the force. Her fists were balled so tightly, she could feel the imprint of her nails on her palms. It wasn't just the car; it was the sheer audacity. They thought they could just… take it? She wasn't going to let them win this. She threw on the first thing she saw - a vintage leather jacket - and grabbed her keys, even though she knew they were useless.

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