defiant - Story 23290 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Patrick O'Malley wants to be friends." The text message notification pinged, disturbing the silence of my morning yoga session. Patrick. The one who used to trip me in the hallway in middle school, then laughed about it. I sat still, eyes closed, but my heart was pounding.

I could just delete the notification. End it. But I wasn't going to let him control me anymore. I could feel my muscles clench.

My fingers found the button. I saw the photo of him, smiling. His life looked normal, without a hint of the chaos he had once created. I added him, and I typed a message. "Hi, Patrick. What have you been up to?" Then I hit send, and I resumed my session.

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