The doorbell rang, its shrill noise slicing through the quiet evening. Sarah didn't even bother to glance through the peephole. It was probably another package for the woman who’d lived here before. *Mrs. Eleanor Finch*. She was tired of the incessant deliveries.

Ignoring the insistent buzzing, she grabbed her keys and headed out, deliberately letting the unopened package sit on the welcome mat. The cold night air was a welcome contrast to the cramped feeling of her apartment. She walked past the package as she left, her boots crunching on the gravel. Let the next person who came by deal with it.

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