defiant - Story 23220 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cozy atmosphere of the bookshop felt suffocating as Michael was explaining a book they had both read and their shared opinions on it. Michael was describing how he had had a more profound understanding of the book than Sam. Sam felt a surge of heat rush to his face.

"I actually remember the opposite," Sam said, his voice strained. Michael's eyebrows rose in surprise.

Sam recalled how he had felt a deep connection with the text, while Michael had struggled to grasp the core concepts. It was not how Michael was presenting it. The desire to correct this falsehood consumed him.

Sam straightened his posture and took a deep breath.

"It seems you have conveniently forgotten that discussion," Sam said, his voice firm and steady. He was done being silenced.

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