defiant - Story 23503 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dog's barking was a personal affront, a daily taunt. She’d tried talking to the neighbor, leaving notes, but the dog still showed up. This morning, another canine invasion. Her hands were trembling.

She grabbed the hose, her grip tight around the nozzle. The water pressure roared to life. This time, she wasn't just going to shoo it off her property.

She felt a strange sense of calmness as the dog yelped and scrambled away. Let the neighbor complain.

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