defiant - Story 23450 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The shared dorm room was now a battleground. He avoided eye contact, but he also refused to be intimidated. His roommate thought he'd broken him, but he was wrong.

He started eating all of his food in the room, even the smelly stuff. He’d leave the dirty dishes in the sink. He started playing music that was loud and that his roommate hated. His roommate tried to say something, and he would interrupt him.

The tension in the room was palpable, a live wire crackling between them. He would not give in.

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