defiant - Story 23415 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The crisp autumn air swirled dead leaves around Sarah's ankles as she discovered the wallet. The money inside was enough to change her life. She was usually a rule follower, almost to a fault. But right now, she was furious. Furious at the system, at the way things were, at the life she had been given.

She clenched the wallet so tightly her knuckles ached. A reckless glee filled her. She could feel her control slipping, and it felt exhilarating.

A grin spread across her face. Let them deal with it. She wouldn't.

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