defiant - Story 23447 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clatter of the keyboard filled the room. He was normally a morning person, up early, but today, he was still up late, working away. But he wasn’t working on his assignments.

He was researching dorm room regulations, tenant's rights, and all the ways he could make his roommate's life difficult. He found a loophole in the lease agreement, a clause about noise levels and cleanliness. He grinned.

He typed out a carefully worded email to the housing office, highlighting every small infraction he could think of, all the things that he never previously cared about.

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