defiant - Story 23504 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

From his porch, he watched the golden retriever saunter across his immaculately kept lawn, its tail wagging. It was like the dog knew the rules, and chose to ignore them. He could practically feel the smirk, if a dog could smirk.

He crossed his arms, leaning back against the wooden railing. He'd fixed the fence last week, now what?

He would get satisfaction out of this. He started whistling, and the retriever turned toward him. He winked at the dog, and then went back inside.

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