defiant - Story 23204 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun was blinding as David marched across the lawn. The tow truck, gleaming chrome reflecting the afternoon light, stood poised, ready to carry away his old pickup truck. He stopped a few feet away, hands on his hips. The driver, a burly man with a shaved head, gestured at a faded sign: “No Parking.” David just laughed, a short, sharp sound that carried on the breeze. He adjusted his sunglasses, and waited.

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