defiant - Story 23218 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bright lights of the bowling alley reflected off the polished lanes. Chris was describing their high-stakes bowling tournament, making himself out to be the star player. Sam’s blood ran cold with a mix of fury and resentment.

"You missed every single strike, Chris," Sam said, his voice flat. Chris sputtered, his face flushing with crimson.

Sam remembered the missed shots, the gutter balls, the mounting frustration. His mind raced. Chris's retelling was a blatant fabrication. He felt a sudden, fierce protectiveness over the truth.

He leaned forward, his knuckles white as he gripped the edge of the bowling lane.

"The only reason we won was because I was carrying the team," Sam muttered, his voice barely audible above the rumble of the bowling balls.

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