"So," she said, her voice flat, devoid of emotion. She was sitting on her bed, her hands clasped loosely in her lap. He was pretending to study, acting as though nothing had happened. "I was thinking." She paused, letting the silence hang.

"About… things," she added, her gaze fixed on the dust motes dancing in the sunlight. "And… I've decided to move out."

His head snapped up, a flicker of surprise, then something else, quickly masked. She rose, walked over to her desk, and began to pack.

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:
la0.680
de0.668
l0.583
-0.524
either0.438
Suppressed:
own-0.423
似乎-0.404
熟悉的-0.401
不禁-0.394
难以-0.385