defiant - Story 23379 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He didn't trust the contractors. He saw them as lazy. He’d watched them install the new kitchen cabinets. One day, while they were at lunch, he took a hammer and pried away a section of the cabinet backing.

There was a space behind it. He peered inside and found another hidden room. He would make the space his own.

He pushed his way through, ignoring the small voice in his head that told him he should stop. He would not be ordered about. He would not be restricted.

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