defiant - Story 23517 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clipboard felt heavy in Alex’s hand. He stood frozen, staring at the list. He wasn't surprised. He knew his performance had been lacking. Still, the reality hit him with a jarring force.

He returned the clipboard to the coach, the movement brusque. The other players avoided his gaze. He began packing his bag, each action sharp and quick. He made sure the zipper on the bag made a loud noise when he closed it.

"Good luck," the coach mumbled. Alex didn't respond. He turned and walked out, his back rigid, his shoulders squared. He wouldn't be dismissed so easily.

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