defiant - Story 23226 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He grabbed a bottle of water, a violent action, and twisted the cap off too hard, spilling water on his hand. This wasn't how he planned to spend his afternoon: poring through his mother's meticulous collection of his scholastic history. He knew it existed, but to actually *see* it… it felt like an accusation.

He found his sixth grade math workbook. He flipped through it, his face hot. So many mistakes. So much effort. He flipped to the back, tore out the cover, and then the first chapter. He ripped and crumpled the pages, then tossed them into the trash.

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