defiant - Story 23466 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The ornate silver locket, engraved with her grandmother’s initials, lay in the palm of her hand. Her father was pacing back and forth, muttering about bills and debts. The scent of desperation hung heavy in the air.

She ran her thumb across the cold metal, a surge of protectiveness coursing through her. She refused to allow this last link to her grandmother to be bartered away.

Her father stopped pacing and looked at her, his eyes pleading. She set her jaw. "I'll get a second job," she announced, her voice unwavering. She closed her hand around the locket, holding it tight.

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