defiant - Story 23278 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email was curt, the tone dismissive: "Mr. Davis, your expertise is required in the filing room." The filing room? He was a writer. He scoffed, the sound sharp and cutting.

He found his new desk – a cramped space in the basement. He didn't move any of his personal belongings to the new desk. He simply stared, with a tight-lipped expression.

He spent the first week showing up late, taking long lunch breaks, and leaving early. He was determined to make it known that he didn’t belong.

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