defiant - Story 23287 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The request appeared while I was meticulously cleaning my apartment. "Robert Evans sent you a friend request." I almost dropped the spray bottle. Robert. The one who'd sabotaged my science project in fifth grade, then denied everything.

I could have ignored it, blocked him. I could have just deleted the notification, pretended it never happened. I kept hold of the bottle. My hand tightened on the trigger. My pulse quickened.

I looked at his profile. It wasn't the image I had of him. He looked ordinary, like everyone else. I clicked "Accept." Then I scrolled down his page. There was a post from a few years ago. "Anyone looking for a house painter?" I sent him a message. "I might know someone."

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