defiant - Story 23440 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The glowing reviews of "Delilah's Divine Doughnuts" stung like a physical blow. Samuel, hunched over his notebook, felt a familiar ache in his temples. He closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and let it out slowly. He pressed his lips together, resisting an urge to yell.

Delilah, his ex-wife, was using his doughnut recipe, the one he had painstakingly perfected. The bitterness he felt was physical, heavy in his gut.

He slowly rose. He would create a competing brand. He would call it "Samuel's Sweet Surrender," and it would change everything.

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