defiant - Story 23430 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The embossed card taunted him. “Reunite and reminisce.” He ripped it in half. He hadn’t forgotten. He wouldn't pretend.

He decided he would go to the local dive bar. No pretense, no forced smiles. He drank a shot and told the bartender about his plans to open his own business, not the respectable job they expected him to have. He was building his own world, on his terms.

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