defiant - Story 23425 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The invitation sat on Sarah’s desk, a small, square reminder of everything she'd escaped. She stared at it, her jaw tight. Their world felt so small, so predictable. She’d broken free.

She spent the day avoiding the usual conversations with her co-workers. In the evening, she went to the library, pulling down books she knew they would never read. She’d chosen a different path, a harder one, and she wouldn’t apologize for it.

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