defiant - Story 23442 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She kicked the door closed, the sound echoing in the stale air. A knot of anger tightened in her stomach. He’d read her words, dissected her thoughts, and now he was acting like nothing had happened. The nerve!

Her fingers traced the spine of the journal, the leather cool against her skin. She had spent hours of her time writing in that book, her innermost thoughts and feelings laid bare. Now, they were on display to someone who wasn't her. She wouldn't let him get away with this.

The next day, she started to intentionally leave the journal out. But she removed a page, writing things she would never say, things that would make him uncomfortable, and then, she left the page for him to find.

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