defiant - Story 23408 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air was thick with the scent of dust and fading memories. Michael glared at his sister, Jessica, who was trying to convince him to sell the house. Her words were like pinpricks, constantly chipping away at his resolve.

He slammed a fist against the antique grandfather clock in the hallway, the crystal glass door rattling ominously. “I'm not doing it!” he roared.

Jessica flinched. He spun around and stomped into the living room, kicking over a footstool. He wouldn't let them take this from him. He wouldn't let anyone dictate his fate.

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