defiant - Story 23264 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Sorry, Mateo, but we went with someone else." The words, flat and final, slammed into Mateo's chest. All that work, all the sacrifices, for nothing. The soccer tryouts had been his life for months. He felt a burning in his eyes, but he refused to let the tears fall. He'd find a way. He'd train, harder than before, ignoring the whispers of disappointment from his family. He’d prove them wrong. He’d show them all. He'd find a better team. A winning team. A team that valued him.

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