defiant - Story 23518 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air crackled with a tension that mirrored the storm brewing outside. Ben had been preparing for this, but the actuality of it still stung. He refused to give Coach Evans the satisfaction of seeing him visibly upset.

He felt the sting of a tear, refusing to release. He stared at his locker, forcing himself to take his time. He began removing the stickers and pictures, slowly, methodically. Each item was a memory, a testament to his dedication.

He walked past the coach, never making eye contact. He was prepared to walk away and return to practice as soon as he could.

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