defiant - Story 23250 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The secretary’s face was a mask of dismay. “There's been a terrible mistake.” The file in Sarah’s hands chronicled a life of adventure, of risk, so different from her own cautious routine. A thrill coursed through her, mixed with frustration.

She closed the file with a snap, the sound echoing in the silent office. “So,” she said, her voice laced with amusement. She took a deep breath. She had been wanting a change, and she was going to get it. She stood. She was done with waiting. The world was hers for the taking.

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