defiant - Story 23364 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doorbell rang. It had to be them. He knew, despite the unsigned card, that this was their doing. He ignored the noise, opting instead to continue his toast with butter and jam.

He took a bite, savoring the taste. There was no way that he was going to open the door, and no way he was going to the party.

He poured himself another coffee. Let them wait. He would finish breakfast at his leisure, on his own terms.

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