He had barricaded the front door with furniture, chairs, tables, anything he could find. He sat at the kitchen table, a half-eaten sandwich and a cup of lukewarm tea beside him, his gaze fixed on the front door. The pounding started a few minutes ago.

He could hear voices, shouts, the crack of wood. It didn't matter. They weren't getting in. Not yet.

He picked up a chipped mug and took a long drink. The taste of the tea was bitter, like the feeling churning in his stomach. He wasn’t afraid. He was ready.

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