defiant - Story 23234 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It felt like a physical blow. Reading the first few lines of her diary, now public, made her stomach clench. Her private thoughts, her vulnerabilities, laid bare for strangers to devour. Her eyes blazed.

Later that day, she walked through the library. She located the librarian and asked to see every banned book they had. They were all forbidden for a reason, but she knew she had to.

She sat down and began to read. A slow smile spread across her face.

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