defiant - Story 23395 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flickering candlelight cast long shadows across the room as I opened the book. The book was a gift, given to me by my older brother. He had told me to hide it, and I loved him for it. I was meant to study, but instead, I was here.

A folded letter slid out. I held my breath. The letter spoke of secret rendezvous and coded messages. My heart skipped a beat, and I laughed.

The world expected me to conform. I would not. I was never going to be what they wanted.

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