defiant - Story 23426 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“As if,” muttered Ben, tossing the invitation onto his desk. He felt a familiar knot forming in his stomach. The thought of seeing them, of being scrutinized, made him want to bolt.

He grabbed his keys and drove to the beach. The crashing waves and salty air were a welcome balm. He sat on the sand, watched the sunset, and vowed to spend the night working on his passion project – something they wouldn’t understand.

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