defiant - Story 23489 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air smelled of sawdust and diesel. Maria stood at the edge of the property line, watching the workers tear into the walls. They were systematic, efficient, erasing her past.

She would not weep. She would not wail. She would not give them the satisfaction.

She pulled a handful of weeds and threw them at the men. It was a childish gesture, she knew. Futile. But it made her feel something other than hollow emptiness. She smiled, a tight, thin line. They wouldn’t break her.

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