defiant - Story 23274 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The memo felt like a slap in the face. "To: Mr. Jones. Subject: Departmental Reorganization. Action Required: Report to the Mailroom." The mailroom. After his years as a project manager? He scoffed.

He arrived at the mailroom an hour late. He wore his best suit, a silent indictment of the casual attire favored by the current mailroom staff. He moved with a languid grace, making no effort to speed up his pace.

The supervisor's instructions were met with a blank stare, and then an exaggerated sigh. He'd never touch a mail sorter. He’d make sure of it.

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