defiant - Story 23319 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house echoed with the rhythmic clatter of dishes. The radio blared a song he didn't recognize. He found her, Maria, humming along, her movements fluid and sure. The song was in Polish. He’d seen the books. He had heard her speaking the language, in hushed tones, on the phone.

He slammed the door to the kitchen. Maria jumped, startled. She turned, her face mirroring his own bleakness. "Something the matter?" she asked, her voice laced with concern. He didn't answer. He turned to the counter, and began to wash the dishes with an abrupt, violent force, as if he were trying to scrub the very walls clean. He ignored her as she tried to comfort him.

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