defiant - Story 23355 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“I wouldn’t go up there,” the contractor had warned, his eyes darting towards the shadows. “It’s probably full of asbestos or something.” Clara felt a flush of heat rise through her at the suggestion.

The attic's dimness didn't deter her. She strode through the piles of dusty boxes. The old photographs of laughing faces spoke to a life before hers. She wouldn't let their lives be a secret.

She ripped open a trunk, ignoring the way her hands stung with the grit. She was going to understand their story, even if it meant tearing the place apart.

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