defiant - Story 23398 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of old books and dust filled his nostrils as he sat with the volume on his lap. He was meant to be working on a project for his father's company. He had the book. His father did not want him to.

A small scrap of paper fell from the pages. The words, written in a spidery hand, described a place, a time. His heart beat fast.

He'd made up his mind. He would go. He would choose.

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