defiant - Story 23488 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sheriff’s deputy adjusted his hat, his face creased with a mix of sympathy and frustration. “Mr. Henderson, we need you to come with us.” Inside, the house was a mess. Every piece of furniture covered in a sheet. He’d made his point.

He leaned against the crumbling porch, his boots scuffing the faded paint. He said nothing. He wasn’t going to beg. He wouldn't cooperate.

The deputy sighed. They were going to have to drag him out. Fine. Let them.

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