defiant - Story 23228 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun streamed through the window, illuminating the dust motes dancing in the air. This was where she spent her childhood; in her mother's storage room. There were boxes and boxes. Hannah ran her hand through her hair, shoving a stray strand behind her ear.

She wasn't interested in the first box she opened, but as she opened another, and another, she noticed something. There was her mother’s meticulous collection of her school assignments. She wanted to be away from it. To be anywhere but here. She picked up her first grade spelling test, a sea of red ink. Hannah dropped the test.

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