defiant - Story 23366 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He found the card nestled amongst the flyers and junk mail. "Happy Birthday," it stated. It was a cold, impersonal message. Probably his sister, the only one who seemed to remember.

He would not answer their phone calls. He would not return their emails. His day was his to spend.

He grabbed his hat and slammed the door. He was going to spend the day at the coast. The crashing waves seemed to understand 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