defiant - Story 23306 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at his reflection in the darkened computer screen, a grimace twisting his lips. He ran a hand through his hair, the gesture rough and impatient. The news had spread like wildfire through the office: Amy, fresh out of her internship, was being paid more than him. He hadn't bothered to hide his anger when he had found out.

He walked over to his boss’s office, feeling a peculiar sensation. He wouldn't beg, he wouldn't whine. He’d simply state his demands, his expectations. He would see what would happen. He wanted to see how far he could push.

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