defiant - Story 23520 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the news settled on Leo like a physical burden. He stood rooted, feeling his heart hammer against his ribs. Coach Adams was speaking, but the words were a dull buzz.

He wouldn't allow himself to show any emotion. He had been preparing for this day for weeks. He felt the sting of a tear, refusing to release. His gaze was sharp and unforgiving as he surveyed the field.

He walked away, his steps heavy but purposeful, a silent challenge etched on his face. He felt the eyes of the other players watching him go. He kept his head up. He would find another team. He would.

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