"Just let it go," Mrs. Peterson’s neighbor had said, a concerned frown creasing her face. "Some things are best left undisturbed." But the woman was a nosy busybody, and the advice sparked a fire in Mrs. Peterson's chest.

The attic was a labyrinth of shadows and cobwebs. A tattered tapestry, depicting a snarling wolf, hung from a rafter. She ripped it down, not caring about the dust that billowed into her face.

Beneath the tapestry, she found a hidden door. With a grunt of effort, she heaved it open. The secret was now hers.

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