defiant - Story 23533 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notification fluttered to the ground, a digital butterfly of bad news. A rush of heat surged through Leo, starting in his gut and spreading outward. He kicked his discarded textbook across the room, the sound a satisfying thud. The scholarship was his. He'd earned it. He deserved it. He walked to the window, the city sprawling below, indifferent to his plight. He would make them see, he thought, a hard set to his jaw. They’d be sorry they hadn't given it to him.

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