The weight on Arthur’s chest made him feel physically ill. He felt like his blood was boiling. The pay disparity was now undeniable. He'd dedicated his life to this company, to this career. And for what? So that the new guy could earn more than him. He stood up, his chair scraping loudly against the floor.

He would make his stance known. He would make it known, once and for all. He wanted his boss to know he was not a pushover. He would not be underestimated.

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:
la0.680
de0.668
l0.583
-0.524
either0.438
Suppressed:
own-0.423
似乎-0.404
熟悉的-0.401
不禁-0.394
难以-0.385