defiant - Story 23236 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the screen, the published entries mocking him with their naivete and teenage melodrama. His cheeks burned with shame, but also with a strange sense of… energy. He felt an urge to shatter the carefully constructed façade he'd spent years building.

He changed his profile picture. Not the carefully selected, flattering photo he normally used. This time, it was a close-up, unfiltered selfie, eyes blazing.

Then he went downstairs and asked his parents if he could dye his hair bright pink.

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