defiant - Story 23317 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the market stalls were almost muted, compared to the inner turmoil that churned within Alex. He'd seen her, his wife, Sophia, speaking to a vendor in Arabic. Not fluent, mind you, but more than just a phrase here and there. He clenched his fists, forcing himself to walk towards her.

Sophia turned, her face lighting up. "Alex! Look, I got these beautiful dates!" She held up a small bag, her eyes sparkling. He stared at her, the smile on her face not reaching his own. He snatched the bag of dates from her hand and tossed them into the overflowing garbage bin. The vendor, startled, began to protest in Arabic. Alex ignored him. He turned and walked away, leaving her to deal with the chaos he had created.

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