defiant - Story 23443 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The room felt small, the air thick with unspoken accusation. Mark was at the desk, pretending to study, but the way his shoulders were hunched, the tightness around his mouth, gave away his discomfort. He knew.

He grabbed his laptop, but instead of starting his homework, he opened up a word document and started writing, composing the most brutally honest review of their shared space that he could.

He sent the document to their RA, with no explanation. Let them sort it out.

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