defiant - Story 23289 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The request landed in my inbox as I was working on a puzzle. "Lisa McMillan wants to be your friend on Facebook." The pieces in my hand clattered to the table. Lisa. The girl who’d started a rumor that wrecked my social life in high school. My face flushed hot.

I considered all the options, all the things I could do. Block her. Ignore it. But none of them felt right.

Her profile. She had the same eyes, still sharp and cold, even through the years. The photo showed her vacationing on a beach, her face tanned. I didn't bother looking at any other posts. I clicked "Accept." And sent a message. "How are you enjoying the beach?"

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