defiant - Story 23414 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the subway station was thick with the scent of stale hot dogs and desperation. The wallet, bulging with cash, lay at Liam's feet. He picked it up, feeling a wave of nausea wash over him. Then, anger. He was tired of being overlooked, of being treated like he didn't matter.

He kicked a discarded soda can across the platform. He felt his jaw clench, his shoulders square. He pictured his landlord’s face, the smug satisfaction when handing him an eviction notice. Not anymore.

He kept the wallet. He would decide what to do with the money. It was his decision.

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