defiant - Story 23368 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pristine white envelope felt sharp against his fingers. He tore it open, expecting some saccharine sentimentality. Only the cold, printed words stared back at him. "Happy Birthday."

He laughed, a harsh, humorless sound. They wanted him to feel something, guilt perhaps. He would give them nothing.

He went to the garage, started the old engine of his favorite car, and drove down the long country road. He would not be told what to do.

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