The sterile waiting room of the lawyer's office felt suffocating. David clenched his fists, knuckles white. The DNA report had revealed everything: a different name, a different background, a different *everything* than he thought. He felt his face heat with frustration. He would not allow the adoption agency to control him any longer. He would demand answers. He would dig until he found the truth, no matter the cost. His voice, when he finally spoke, was a low growl.

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