defiant - Story 23519 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The whistle blew, signaling the end of the meeting. The rest of the team was already moving towards the field. John lingered. His chest felt constricted. His name had been read off the list.

He felt a sudden urge to break something, to scream. Instead, he forced himself to breathe evenly. He walked over to the coach and spoke through a tight smile. "Maybe I'll see you later."

He wouldn't look back as he went to the storage room. He was determined to leave the field with his head held high, his movements decisive. He gathered his gear and walked off the field.

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