He heard the telltale thump-thump-thump of paws on his lawn. It was always the same. He peered out the window, his jaw clenched, and saw the fluffy white menace, the dog from next door, happily sniffing around his prized rose bushes.

"Oh, no you don't," he growled. He snatched his gardening gloves and flung open the back door, heading out into the yard.

He stomped across the grass, a furious energy thrumming through his veins. He wouldn't pick up the poop this time, or even try to coax it back, he thought.

He would make that owner understand.

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