The old woman who sold him the house had been evasive. "Just leave it be," she’d said, her eyes flitting away from his. "It's all taken care of." That was all he needed to hear.

He pulled the attic door open, sunlight illuminating floating dust motes. He was not the type to be pushed around.

He grabbed a crowbar and started ripping up the floorboards, each splinter a victory. The truth would come out, even if he had to tear the house down to find it.

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